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ASCHEME for block allocations of supplementary petrol to concerns whose employees cannot travel to and from work by public transport will begin shortly. In the first instance it will be introduced in the Bristol region on January 15.
Employers must show that public transport is not available or practicable for the employees concerned over any part of the journey: that there are arrangements for pooling of -transport among employees living in the same neighbourhood or on the same route, and that collective transport, such as coaches, cannot meet the needs of workers COX AND BOX
AS an alternative to dismissing half their staff, A. R. Marshall and Sons (Bulwell), Ltd., Nottingham, who operate night services to Liverpool and London, are to employ half their workers one week and the other half the next week.
The company's fuel allocation allows a third of the fleet to be run.
VAUXHALL CUT DOWN
SCHEDULES for January of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., have had to be planned on the assumption that there will be no improvement in sales, and the factory will remain on a four-day week. Between 800 and 1,000 employees are to be released.