SUCCESSFUL YEAR FOR P.S.V. OPERATORS
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SUCCESSFUL results have attended the trading of P.S.V. Operators, Ltd., during the past year, as was shown at the company's recent second annual general meeting. Mr. W. F. French, A.M.Inst.T., the chairman, who presided, stated that operatormembers would receive a rebate of 3 per cent, on the 15-per-cent. commission that was paid to the company for its services. This refund would account for £5,165, whilst the balance-sheet showed a net profit of 2426.
Mr. French remarked that hostility towards P.S.V. Operators, Ltd., has now largely disappeared. He reviewed the activities of the company, and mentioned that it was producing, for the benefit of members, a guide to caterers.
Messrs. A. W. Allchin, T. Briggs and E. A. Webber resigned from the board of directors, and the following new directors were elected :—Messrs. G. L. Sutton, G. R. Valli, C. Y. Lloyd, J. C. Watkinson and T. Davis.
It was eventually decided, on the motion of Mr. J. H. Ewer, that the rate of commission should be reduced from 15 per cent. to 13 per cent.
CHIEF CONSTABLE'S TRIBUTE TO BUS DRIVERS.
THE best answer to criticisms of the safety-first movement lies in the drivers of public service vehicles, suggested the chief constable of Leeds (Mr. R. L. Matthews), at the staff dinner of the Leeds depot of the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., when he presented to 28 drivers medals for five years' driving without accident. The bus companies, said Mr. Matthews, were
now building up a system which fast becoming comparable with railways.
Of 63 fatal accidents in the Leeds area in 1933, there was only one in which a public service vehicle was involved, and of 60 fatal accidents in 1934, buses were involved in five.
Major F. J. Chapple, the general was the manager, remarked : "So far as safety first is concerned, I am convinced that the only possible course lies in disregarding your ' rights ' as a motorist."
BIG STATION FOR BRADFORD?
T"question of the provision of a central bus station in Bradford will be raised at the next meeting of Brad ford City Council, when Alderman J. W. Longley will move that a special committee be appointed to consider the construction of a bus station, including waiting rooms, ticket offices and other accommodation.
Not long ago, the street improvement and buildings committee approved in principle the erection by the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., of a station in Chester Street. Interviewed ' by one of our representatives, Alderman Longley said his idea was that, instead of having its own station, the company should' use the central one.
BETTER CONDITIONS FOR BUS WORKERS?
THE Transport and General Workers Union is holding a Scottish conference in Edinburgh, on January 9, to discuss a resolution to demand a minimum wage of £3 5s. for a 48-hour week for all bus and tram drivers. It is also to be proposed that all bus companies should pay the same terms for spread-9.7er duties as are granted by Glasgow Corporation.
Other proposals to come before the conference will be :—One day's rest in seven ; three days' notice before an empldyee can be sus pended ; privilege tickets for employees of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and subsidiary companies ; recognition of the union in negotiating a national agreement for garage staffs ; the abolition of standing passengers, especially on double-deck buses, and the establishment of a superannuation scheme for all employees of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd.,• and its various associated coach and bus companies.
JOHANNESBURG REORGANIZATION.
TOHANNESBURG City Coun
cil has approved in principle, although not yet in detail, an extensive scheme of reorganization of the municipal-transport system. The recommendations closely follow the lines of the recent report on the Transport Inquiry Commission, under the chairmanship of Mr. C. J. Spencer, _ of London. They include the replacement of tramcars by buses on several important routes.
CORPORATION TAKES OVER COMPANY SERVICE,
LEEDS Corporation is to take over the service
between Leeds and Colton operated by the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., the application for the licence transfer having been granted by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners.
With reference to the substitution of buses for tramcars on the Leeds-Morley route, it is anticipated that it will be possible to pit the scheme into operation after Ja`fluary 12.