WAR-TIME PROBLEMS OF BUS OPERATORS'
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SPEAKING on " Wa r-time Difficulties of Operating Passengertransport Services," to members of Glasgow Rotary Club last week, Mr. E. R, L. F'itzpayne, general manager of Glasgow Corporation transport department, stated that the number of buses being operated on serVice was at . present 100 less than in September, 1939. This was equivalent to a reduction of 19 per cent.
One of the first problems they had to face was the introduction of female labour, and to-day women were undertaking the cleaning, oiling, fuelling, • and shunting of the buses during the night at all the garages. Latterly women had been trained and were working as fully qualified electricians, bodymakers, and mechanics.
Apart from work directly connected with bus maintenance, the transport department had to maintain a fleet of 550 Civil Defence vehicles of all types.
The office work of the department with decreased staffs had, Mr. Fitzpayne added, been complicated by the variety of forms, authorizations, permits, allocations, etc., which ultimately, with a measure of luck, led to the acquisition of the necessary materials for ordinary maintenance Speaking particularly of iron, steel, and limber allocations for bus maintenance, he commented, " there is no polite way of expressing my views on this tiresome procedure."