TRAMWAY WORKSHOPS IN WELLINGTON
SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF STAFF (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 23. Because of an acute shortage of skilled workers, the Wellington tramway workshops can only just keep enough trams, buses, and trolley-buses on the roads for essential services, and can spare little labour for building new vehicles. Seven-eighths of the existing Kilbirnie workshops staff were required for maintenance, and only one-eighth of the men were available for constructing new trams and trolley-buses, Mr L. W. Dickie, the tramways engineer, said today. The chairman of the transport committee of the Wellington City Council (Cr. W. H. Stevens), during a visit to the Kilbirnie workshops today, said that although the plant was among the most modern in the country, the shortage of skilled men was slowing up the maintenance and construction work of the tramways department. The most noticeable effect of the staff shortage is at the trolley-bus assembly plant. Since- 1948 16 trolleybuses and four trams have been constructed. The present rate of construction is one trolley-bus every six or seven weeks. If the workshops had enough men, two vehicles a month could be turned out.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26870, 24 October 1952, Page 10
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