Over lm. C-licence • Vehicles
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THERE are now over lm. C-licence I vehicles, whereas 10 years ago there were fewer than 500,000. The annual percentage increase in the numbers of ancillary vehicles has, however, tailed off since 1949, although the current rate of the rise is higher than for some years. Of 1.2m. goods vehicles in different licence categories, 33,182 are owned by the British Transport Commission.
These facts were given to Mr. G. Nabarro (Cons., Kidderminster) last week by Mr. G. R. Nugent, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, in a written reply. Mr. Nugent gave tabulated data, reproduced below, relating to the growth in the numbers of ancillary vehicles, and the latest available figures of vehicles in different licence classes.
Number of C.-licence vehicles at December 31 for years 1945-56 and at September 30, 1957.
"TAKE CARE IN BOARDING"
AN appeal to bus passengers to be careful when getting on or off vehicles has been made by Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, in a pre-Christmas message _pointing out seasonal road dangers, lumping 01 1 moving buses. or buses on the point or starting, can be particularly dangerous when people are loaded with parcels," he says.
Ha also suggests that pedestrians should wear something white at night, and not to step off the kerb with their backs to the traffic. His injunctions to *drivers are to watch out for pedierians stepping ou t from behind, parked vehicles, and to concentrate on what they are doing.