I No' to Tax Plan T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer
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last week turned down a suggestion that the length of cars and goods-carrying heavy vehicles should be a determining factor in their taxation. No Control on Nitric Acid .1-1. A MOVE to control the carrying
nitric acid by road through regu tions under the Petroleum (Consolidatic Act of 1948 failed in the Commons.
Mr. Tudor Watkins (Labour, Bre:. and Radnor) backed up his suggestion recalling an accident on the Brecon Hay-on-Wye road in August in which lorry carrying a large load of nitric al was involved. Mr. Henry Brooke, 1 Home Secretary, said he had receiv a full report from the police and th( was no uncertainty as to how the accich had occurred. The nitric acid sl packed in a manner which was standa and proper practici and he did not cc sider that the .facts of the case pros the need to impose 'statutory control.
Wear and Tear THERE was plenty of practi4 evidence of the wear and tear caus on roads by heavy lorries, comment Mr. Marples in the Commons last we but no satisfactory, comparisons, had been made between the wear and it attributable to heavy lorries and Ca
He said this after Mr. Simon Wingfi< Digby (Tory, W. Dorset) had asked h to review licence fees in the light of wc and tear—a move which Mr. Marp said rested with the Chancellor.