REPAIR OF VEHICLES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20604, 4 November 1941, Page 4

REPAIR OF VEHICLES

AGREEMENT WITH ARMY GISBORNE COMMITTEE A liaison committee was set up at a meeting of the Gisborne Garage Proprietors’ Association yesterday in accordance with arrangements that have been made by which a proportion of the repairs to army vehicles will be carried out in future by the motor trade in civil workshops. The committee consists of Messrs. A. H. Collett, A. E. Allen and C. Hillyard. The situation, as explained by the secretary of the association, Mr. R. W. J. Edwards, is that liaison committees have been set up in each district to control the scheme, allocate work among approved garages, and supervise the work. The army will not be in direct contact with the garages, but will work through the committees. Standard rates and wages have been approved. The army has certain garages of its own, but it has been pointed out by the trade that in Britain it has been found more satisfactory and economical for a considerable proportion of the repairs to be done in civil workshops than for the army to erect, equip and staff its own workshops, especially through the reduction in normal civil business owing to petrol rationing and the requisitioning of vehicles.