ATTEMPT TO RAISE PROVINCIAL WAGES
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QPEAK1NG at the half-yearly conIsJference, at Cardiff, on Monday, of the South Wals passenger branch of -the Transport and General Workers Union, Mr. Harold Clay, national passenger secretary, referred to the recent agreement, to which the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association is a party, providing higher wages for municipal-transport operatives.
The Union's next step, he said, was to be a determined effort towards the betterment of wages and conditions of employees of privately owned undertakings. A national conference was Shortly to be called, to which all provincial operators were to be invited. An attempt would be made to arrive at an agreement for wages and conditions of provincial bus workers, and the setting up of national machinery for negotiation.
FIRST CANADIAN LONGDISTANCE OILERS.
TWO Leyland-engined buses have just been put into service on the routes of Canadian American Trailways in the Windsor, Hamilton and Niagara Falls areas, and form the first application of the oil engine to long
distance operation in Canada. The bodies were built by Messrs. Smith Bros. Body Works, in Toronto, but the chassis, engine and eight-speed mechanical transmission are of Leyland manufaCture.
The engine is of the maker's stan
dard sbc-cylindered type set -to ,give 190 b.h.p. at 1,900 r.p.m., and is fitted with C.A.V.-Bosch fuel-injection equipment. All wheels have 9.75-in. by 22-in. tyres, with twins at the rear, and braking is effected by the Westinghouse air system.
The wheels are, of the Budd disc type, and Gross air springs are provided.' The body contains 29 de. luxe scats with adjustable head rests, and with cushions and head and arm-rests of punlopillo. Six aisle seats can be erected to give a temporary maximum
seating accommodation of 35. The body is carried on a steel underframe, and has pillars and canines of ash, with the roof and side panelling of aluminium. .
NO SEVEN-HOUR DAY.
LONDOLONDON'S busmen are not to have N'S seven-hoar day. London Transport has refused to reduce working hours, but has agreed to discuss, on their merits, other conditions of service, including the schedule times of journeys.
On Tuesday night a conference of delegates from all London Transport garages endorsed the policy of continuing negotiations with the Board on matters which it was willing to discuss.
40 BUSES FOR NOTTINGHAM.
r-IN Monday, Nottingham City Coun cil the purchase of 40 double-deck buses, at a cost of R.67,680. Twenty of these machines are required for replacement purposes, and the remainder for additional services.
ARE TOURS TO BE LIMITED?
THE Yorkshire Traffic Coininissioners indicated, sonic months ago, that they contemplated restricting the, period of operation of long'clatecoach, tours. Apparently, however, this policy is not to be put into operation so: far as " land-cruise." tours are concerned.
This deduction is drawn •from the Commissioners' decision in granting the application for ".land-cruise ''• licences by Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., Leeds, with the 'sarne period of 'operation as previously. Whether the Commis
sioners will restrict the period of opera. don of " fan-tail " tours remains to be
seen, for the decisions on applications for this type of tour are held up, pending the result of the appeals against the South-Eastern Traffic Commissioners' decisions in the matter.
When it was announced that the Yorkshire Commissioners were contemplating restricting the period of operation of tours, it was intimated that the basis of the restriction would be that the period would be limited to the quarter or quarters corresponding with those during which the tours were worked in 1936. Objections were made by Mr. W. R. Hargrave, on behalf of A.R.O. members concerned.
BIRMINGHAM TRAMS TO GO.
ON Wednesday, trams were replaced by buses on three routes in Birmingham. The withdrawal of the trams coincided with the 30th anniversary of their introduction in the city.