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GPO PLANS BIG CHANGES
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WIDESPREAD changes in maintenance procedures and transport • • organization have been proposed by the GPO. If adopted, they would mean:— • Frequency of vehicle inspections would be reduced and inspections would be on a mileage instead of time basis. Safety checks would be at 1,000 miles and detailed inspections at 3,000 miles.
• Transfer of lubrication and chassis cleaning to motor transport staff. Reduction in lubricating frequency to 3,000 miles. Underside cleaning of vehicles would he scrapped except when workshop staff needed to inspect or work on them.
• Vehicles to be brought into workshops, eliminating outstation visiting by mechanics.
• Vehicle inspections would be carried out by senior mechanics or above. These would be employed as leading hands in charge of a group of staff.
• A new grade of assistant mechanic with a minimum age of 18 and duties broadly those of existing garage assistant and mechanic "B".
• Reduction of workshop classification from four to three. Mechanicin-charge to disappear and officers in charge to be titled "workshop supervisors I, II and III".