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about to be loaded on the s.s. Tregenna for shipment to Cape Town. it is the most powerful vehicle of its kind to be made in Britain and was the subject of a road test report in "The Commercial Motor" dated November 29, 1957.
C-licensees Asked to Back Parking Ban
AirEMBERS of the Traders' Road IVI Transport Association have been asked to co-operate in a Saturday traffic experiment being undertaken at Chatham. This involves a ban on vehicles in the busy section of the High Street between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., in an effort to make the road safer for pedestrians. Drivers will be allowed to stop only to pick up and set down passengers, or to load and unload goods. If the idea is a success, Chatham Council propose making it a permanent feature.
PARKING METERS APPROVED
riA PILOT scheme for parking meters for 'Westminster has been authoriza. by the Minister of Transport. It is expected to come into operation within three months and will cover the area hounded by Park Lane, Oxford Street and the southern boundary of Grosvenor Square. Westminster City Council proposed that vehicles would be allowed to p:ek up or set down goods or passengers for up to 20 minutes, except...on Some stretches near intersections. Public service vehicles would be exempt.
HAULIERS MAY NOT BUILD
ON appeal, permission to build a garage in Oldham has been refused to William Smith (HoIlinwood), Ltd., by the Minister of Housing and Local Government. As reported in The Commercial Motor on December 6, 1957, the company had contended that when they bought the land for the garage they had been told that there would be no difficulties about erecting such a building there.
The Minister has upheld protests from local residents that the establishment of the business at the site would not be in conformity with the character of the area.
AN appeal decision concerning a licence that had already been surrendered was announced this week by the Minister of Transport. Mr. B. S. Williams appealed against the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners' decision to impose certain protective fares for the benefit of Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., when granting variations of the conditions of his licence for a stage service from Stedham to Midhurst and Petersfield. The Minister thought that the evidence of possible abstraction of short-distance or through passengers from Southdown by reason of additional journe ys authorized to Mr. Williams was slight. There was no justification for imposing protective fares or other forms of protection on the additional journeys alone. He has, however, been unable to make an order to reduce the fares to those otherwise authorized because the licence has been surrendered. The inquiry was held on September 19 last.
COACHBUILDER SETS EXAMPLE THE procedure followed by a coach' Wadding concern in the event of redundancy is quoted as an example to industry in a Ministry of Labour booklet on industrial relations circulated to 15.000 employers this week. Entitled "Positive Employment Policies,the booklet contains a foreword by the Minister of Labour, Mr. lain MacLeod, in which he. states that the responsibility of the employer to the worker and of the worker, towards the employer should be encouraged. The booklet contains examples of the ways in which 28 concerns, who remain agonymous, and two nationalized industries have effectively introduced schemes such as joint consultation.