Birmingham Body. Clause Carried
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AT a town's meeting on Tuesday, the clause in the Birmingham Parliamentary Bill seeking permission to build bus bodies was carried by 205 votes to 100. There were 1,800 electors in the town hall when the meeting began at 8 p.m. It finished just after midnight.
Government approval is expected to be given to Birmingham Corporation's proposal to spread evenly over 10 years their repayment of loan charges for the transport department's vehicles.
It is estimated that the transport department will have made a net profit of £157,000 by March next year—the first profit for three years. There is stated to be no possibility, however, of reducing fares, PAY TALKS ADJOURNED
DTSCUSSIONS on a pay claim by 58,000 bus workers employed by London Transport were adjourned until an unknown date after a three-hour meeting between officials of the Executive and the Transport and General
Workers' Union on Monday. It is understood that the ban on overtime and rest-day working which had spread last week to some Li garages, is now losing strength, many of the employees involved having resumed normal working.