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New Weight Proposals : Two Mirrors to be Compulsory
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E'URTHER proposals for amending 1 the Construction and Use Regulations were made known by the Ministry of Transport on Wednesday. Laden weights of heavy locomotives and public service vehicles are concerned. It is also proposed that two mirrors should be compulsory.
It is recommended that a heavy locomotive with pneumatic, soft or elastic tyres should be permitted a laden weight of 22 tons if it has four wheels, 26 tons if it has six wheels, and 30 tons if it has more than six wheels. Otherwise, the limit will be 20 tons. Land locomotives will be restricted to 20i tons unleis, apart from having pneumatic, soft or elastic tyres, they have springs and a parking brake, and a braking system similar to that legally required on a tractor.
It is proposed that only locomotives registered before June 1, 1955, should he allowed a single braking system acting on the non-steerable wheels. Others will have to have brakes similar to those on a tractor.
Weights of Crush-loaders In computing the weight of a public service vehicle authorized to carry more than eight standing passengers, it is proposed that 140 lb. should be reckoned for each passenger carried in excess of five, it being assumed that the passengers would be reasonably distributed in the spaces available for standing.
Another suggestion is that vehicles, including three-wheeled vans, should be required to carry two mirrors, one of which would be fitted externally on the off side. The other would be fitted either internally or on the near side.
Drafting amendments are proposed to the regulations on warning devices in braking systems, direction indicators and certain other matters. The regulations on direction indicators will be amended to control the design of indicators fitted voluntarily to trailers, as well as to those required by law.
Interested organizations have until October 31 to make representations to the Minister.
• MORE PURCHASES IN NORTH-WEST AND SCOTLAND
TWO more vehicles have been taken 1 over from British Road Services by Messrs. A. E. Nelson and Sons, Trafalgar Garage, Arnside, Westmorland. Both are Bedford 5-ton platform lorries and were originally based at Liverpool. The firm already have one special A-licensed vehicle (The Commercial Motor, March 19).
New purchasers in the Yorkshire area are Hull and Glasgow Road Carriers, Ltd., Hull, who have bought three 7-tonners from the Coatbridge, Law and Haddington depots of B.R.S. in Scotland. A night trunk service, similar to that which they operated before nationalization, is to be run . between Hull and Glasgow. .
12,500 VEHICLES A WEEK FROM
B.M.C.
MEXT year the British Motor Cori-11 poration would produce 10,000 vehicles a week and by 1956, 12,500 vehicles a week, Sir Leonard Lord, chairman, announced on Monday. He said that the group was committed to spend over £9m: on development, and proposed to spend more.
Sir Leonard was not willing to " bandy" millions with the Americans, who, he said, intended to use British production as a springboard for the Commonwealth markets, but B.M.C. had . plans to meet the keenest competition.