MORE HALIFAX BUSES TO RUN ON CREOSOTE?
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WIDER use . of creosote for bus W operation in the Halifax district is proposed. Already, all Halifax Corporation's oil-driven buses run on a mixture comprising 30 per cent.. creosote and 70 per cent, oil fuel. A' move to run more vehicles on a creosote-fuel oil mixture is now being made by Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee, which operates services on behalf of the municipality and other interests.
The corporation services 'use 2,000 gallons of creosote per week, and the joint services will, use a similar amount if the committee's application for provision of the additional storage .tanks necessary for supplying them be
successful, Earlier in the war,' -the. Halifax municipal-transport undertaking's use of creosote was hampered 'by the irregularity of supplies, but there is no longer any difficulty in this respect.
MANY BUSMEN WIN SAFE-DRIVING AWARDS
AWARDS for safe driving during 1941 have been announced to drivers of 'buses owned by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., and associated concerns. The awards have been made by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
During 1941, 187 " Northern " drivers received diplomas, 19 received medals and 153 bars to medals. Awards to drivers of the Tyriemouth and District Transport Co., Ltd., and Wakefield Motors, Ltd., included 22 diplomas, five medals and 18 bars, whilst in the case of the Tyneside Tramways and Tramroads -Co. awards comprised 12 diplomas and two medals.
GLASGOW AND T.G.W.U. FAIL TO AGREE
GLASGOW Corporation's special committee on conditions of service reports that it is unable to agree to
proposals made at a conference between the transport department and the Transport and General Workers' Union.
The union offered to agree to an extension of the working day on condition
that all work inexcess of 44 hours in
one week would be paid for at overtime rates, and that spread-over allowances would be given at ordinary rates on duties exceeding a 10-hours' spreadover.
The committee objected to the cost, estimated at £90,000 a year, and expressed the opinion that the `proposals would be of negligible value to the department in overcoming war difficulties.
"WORKERS' COURTS" EFFORT TO CHECK ABSENTEEISM
ONE of the so-called " workers' courts " which are being established in the North-eastern Region to check absenteeism among employees of passenger-transport undertakings was in session at Wakefield, last week. Three bus drivers and three conductresses, employed by the West Riding A irtomobile Co., Ltd., appeared
before the works Committee of the company's Wakefield dep'ot to answer complaints of frequent lateness for work, and they were cautioned against future unpunctuality. Mr. G. H. Margrave, general manager of the company, presided. The committee, comprising operating and garage employees and officials, was established before the introduction of the " workers' courts" system. There is a similar committee at the company's Castleford depot.
MR. STILL'S POSITION WITH A.E.C.
W/E have been asked to point out VY that Mr. G. E. Still, who is in charge of training courses for factory workers at the Acton Technical College, is superintendent of production control for the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., under the superintendent of • Production, Mr. F. Pollard.
TILLOTSON'S MANCHESTER DEPOT
THE Manchester depot of Oswald Tillotson, Ltd„ is now at Hulme Hall Road, the telephone number, Deansgate 5496-7, being unaltered,
CHANGE OF TITLE
WE are informed that the title of VY Mechanizations and Aero, Ltd., has been changed to Nuffield Meehanizations, Ltd.
RANSOME AND MARLES TRADING
IN. the year ended June 30 last, the net profit of Ransome and Manes Bearing Co., Ltd., after providing for all revenue charges, including taxation and depreciation, amounted to £119,434. An interim dividend already paid took £17,500, and contributions and premiums *under the War Damage Act £15,867, so that the amount available after adding £76,305 brought in, is £162,372. A final dividend of 15 per cent, less tax, will take £52,500, and 430,000 is transferred to the reserve for contingencies. The ahrount to be carried forward is £76,872.
S.C.H.C.A. MEMBERSHIP ADVANCES
WHEN the Scottish Carriers and W Haulage Contractors' Association held its annual general,meeting a few days ago, Mr. James Ferguson, the chairman, referred to the increasing membership , of the organization. Reviewing the past year's work, he said that deferment applications had been satisfactorily handled, that licence applications had been pressed for where they were justified, and that rates had been maintained. Rates for the carriage of livestock were scheduled at a recent meeting, when representatives of livestock hauliers attended. Rates were fixed per, head of cattle, which formed the basis for all other rates.