CONCESSIONS TO S.M.T. BUS WORKERS
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SEVERAL thousand bus workers in the employ of the Scottish Motor . Traction Co., Ltd., are to receive concessions under an agreement reached in Edinburgh. on Monday, between representatives of the management and a negotiating committee of the Transport and General Workers Union. The employer's proposals,. which the Union recommends its members to accept, are
(1) Edinburgh drivers and conductors who Reiland a wages cut in 1931 to have this restored.
(2) Scale A: Drivers' pay to be increased from Is. 31. to is. 33hd, per hour: conductors' wages th be increased from Is. 114d. to le. 2d. per beer; Janicr concluotors' pay to be raised from 101,f,d. to ltd, per hour; conductresses' rates, from 741. to 814d. per hour.
(3) Seale )3: Increases, as above, for drivers and conductrest,es. A new sortie for junior male conductors, giving up to is. O%d. pee hour.
(4) Scale C: Drivers' pay to be raised from ls. 2.1/it1. to is, 3d. per hour; conductresses, from Yd. to 7d. per hour. A new scale for junior male conductors giving up to 1110. per hour.
(5) Drivers and conductors on Aberdeen suburban services to be transferred from Scale C to Scale B.
(.5) Several important improvements in conditions of service.
These new rates and conditions are to come into force from the pay-day nearest the date of acceptance.
"MIDLAND RED" ISSUES 920-PAGE GUIDE.
S0M_E 920 pages are included in the new edition of "Helps to Happy Holidays," issued by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd. The guide costs 6d. and is remarkably comprehensive. It is well illustrated and is divided into four sections, dealing with extended tours to the south coast, the west country, Wales, the English lakes and Scotland; a descriptive list of seaside resorts; selected day and half-day tours to Midlands beauty spots; and a useful gazetteer of places to which ordinary service buses run in the Midland counties.
LAST WESTON TRAMS NEXT WEEK.
ON April 17, Weston-super-Mare and District Electric Supply Co., Ltd., will close down its tramways. On the following day, buses will be introduced by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., which has purchased the electric-supply transport undertaking. Bus fares on the tram routes will be the _same as those hitherto charged on the trams.
ARE TROLLEYBUSES "EXPERIMENTAL "?
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IF we find that trolleybuses, which are now largely experimental, are sufficiently improved for us to put them on the road, we shall do so, but not until then."
This airy .remark was made, last week, by Alderman P. V. Bowyer, j.P., chairman of Southampton Transport Committee, when referring to the council's trolleybus powers. He stated that the transport committee had been authorized to inaugurate trolleybuses not earlier than 1939, but no resolution in favour of doing so had been passed.