Speed Limit Meeting Postponed
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THE further discussion between the employers and the unions, expected to have taken place at the end of October, on the proposal to increase the speed limit on heavy goods vehicles to 30 m.p.h., was not held.
Meanwhile, the Road Haulage Association are trying to reach agreement with British Road Services on a united case to be presented by the employers. When agreement has been reached, they will probably approach the unions for a further meeting in the hope of solving the problem.
CUTTING DOCK DELAYS CO-OPERATION was the essential ‘•-• factor in speeding delivery from the sheds at Liverpool docks, it was stated at a meeting held last week among parties concerned with the working of the docks. Importers should be able to receive accurate information to enable goods to be moved quickly from the quays. , Subjects of particular interest to British Road Services and members of the Road Haulage Association andthe Traders' Road Transport Association are to be dealt with at a meeting to be held later.
CAFETERIAS ON COACHES
E•ACILMES offered in special I Leyland excursion coaches introduced in the Punjab, Pakistan, include a cafeteria, gramophone, radio and playing cards. The vehicles are Tiger Cubs operated by Lahore Omnibus Services and Punjab Transport Services, Rawalpindi.
P.T.S. arrange excursions from Mune to Natha Gali and Bhoorhan Chariban, where passengers can play golf. Lahore Omnibus Services run trips to places such as Noor Iehan's tomb and the Lahore museum.
GLASSPOL DOUBLES TURNOVER
SI NCE beginning to make body work in Glasspol, Longwell Green Coachworks. Ltd., Bristol, have doubled their turnover, and in the past nine months their staff has increased from 100 to 160.
Initial research into methods of using plastics materials was done by Bristol Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., Brislington, and the knowledge was passed to Longwell Green with a contract for the supply of 100 cabs for British Road Services. A further 125 are to be put in hand.
PAY DISPUTE CASE CONTINUES HEARING of a dispute on coach 'drivers' pay, between the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Newquay Motor Co., Ltd., Newquay, Cornwall, is to be resumed by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal on November 20. The dispute (The Commercial Motor, October 5) was part-heard early last month.