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My Dad also worked for the Corpie, around this time, as a conductor. The year I was 25 Mum said to me that a house they were going to buy just as I was born in '48 would have been paid off. The mortgage was £5 per month for the fixed term and mum panicked and pulled out of the deal.Five pounds a month in the 1970's when we had this chat would have been negligible and now wouldn't buy 2 coffees where I live now!

Was the 69.30 the hours he had to put in to get £6-10-10?

Al.C I am not sure how to work out the total, I don't know what the basic working hours were. All I know is it was a lot of money in those days even though it might seem like a pittance to us.
grannieannie, my father was also a conductor working the Wigan-Ince-Hindley buses. Think they were number 3A.

Two and fourpence tax !
Those were the days.

Your father worked sixtynine hours thirty mins. his rate was £4:12s0d per week about one shilling and eleven old pennies per hour for 45 hours or maybe even 50 hrs. Overtime was not paid at +50% back then, you kept the same hourly rate for all hours worked, he worked nineteen and half hour overtime, this suggests he worked all 7 days.

Jacklaw, my Dad worked some of the time on the Platt Bridge route. When I was about a year old Mum and her sister took me to Wigan. Dad who was on duty on the Platt Bridge route that day put my folded-up Tansad under the stairs but didn't check the brake. As it rounded the first corner off shot the Tansad with Dad frantically ringing the bell to stop, then he had to run back to retrieve the Tansad which now had a buckled wheel. As he said, "we had a week of silent meals after that". For younger readers a Tansad is a kind of early pushchair about the size of a Smart Car!

kenee.... the 2s 4d was other stoppages, no tax !

He must have been solidly working hard and getting the hours in - look at that total pay to date since the start of the new tax year. Working very hard indeed.

Oh, I see.....
One and eleven plus five pence.
No income tax! What's that all about?

As fran says, the 2s.4d is the total of the 1s.11d and 5d. stoppages. The part of the 5d.stoppage is designated inf.and in pre-National Health days this probably referred to a weekly subscription towards any treatment which might be required at the Infirmary.