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20th April 1951, Page 52
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What the Higher CCORD1NG to the British Tax on Motor Fuel 1-1 Road Federation, the add i Means tional tax of 4id. on motor fuel is bound ,to result in another rise in the cost of living, and is, therefore, a tax which will affect everyone. It is not always realized that only 16 per cent. of the Consumption is by owners of private cars, and a good proportion of their vehicles must be employed for business purposes. The remaining 84 per cent, of the fuel is entirely devoted to commercial and industrial u,ses. Quite apart from road travel by public conveyance, every manufacturing process and service depends, to a greater or lesser extent, on the employment of road vehicles. As the additional tax will add something like 5 per cent. to road transport costs, many of the demands for increases in fares are already out of date in their extent.

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Tram Stops Which TRAM stops. often waste a Cause Much Traffic A considerable amount of .Congestion . . . . tiine by congesting traffic, particularly where they are badly situated. There are quite a .few in British towns which could well be improved, failing the removal of the cause by substituting buses or trolleybuses. In Brisbane, pruning and modifying the tram stops has proved most successful. One of the most popular halts and the worst in jamming traffic was outside the General Post Office. This was abolished, as were all stops in the middle of city blocks, and particularly one at Anzac Square which had been responsible for the loss of thousands of man-hours of working time and a great amount of fuel. In some cases there were three stops in 200 yds. and, eVen now, the longest extra walk entailed by passengers is less than 100 yds. Some Members of THE jolly-looking people Britavema Study an A shown in the accompany Old Design . . . ing illustration are not starting

for a run to Brighton, but are members of Britavema, the representative body of the heavy-vehicle interests. They had been touring the works of Dennis Bros., Ltd., and the vehicle depicted is not the latest passenger model, but a 1903 Dennis owned by Mr. Roy Dennis. The production of this make of car ceased long ago.

Crawley Has ExperiA S part of the development mental Pre-stressed 1Th of the residential area Concrete Road . . . which is being proceeded with

in the neighbourhood of Crawley, experiments are being carried out with a pre-stressed concrete road which has a 400-ft. bay with a 5-ft. expansion length of hardcore and tarmacadam at each end. Space is not available to enable us to go into full details of the test, but it seems that tubes were inserted into the concrete and strong steel wires passed through these from side to side, being anchored, in each case, at the farther side. After the concrete had almost set and dried out, hydraulic jacks were used to stress these wires and, consequently, compress the road surface from each side It is claimed that this process adds

greatly to the strength and helps to avoid cracking, but it must be rather expensive in the first instance. The road was built by Willment Bros., Ltd., under the supervision of the chief engineer for the Crawley scheme, Mr. A J. W. McIntosh, B.Sc., M.I.C.E., M.I.Mech.E The future of this method of construction will be watched with considerable interest.

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