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Comments on State IT is the opinion of Sir Joseph Transport by an 'Nall that difficult problems Authority . . „ of integration arise on the
goods-transport side of the British Transport Commission and that the settlement of the line dividing the spheres of the Railway and the Road Transport Executives will not quickly be achieved. They may have to be adjusted from time to time by a process of trial and error, as the success or otherwise of the solutions arrived at is demonstrated. It is easy to say that the Road Transport Executive should have control of all road vehicles and become the carting agent for all railborne goods, bat that would involve large-scale changes in a s”tem which is already working smoothly, whilst dislocating the fairly large volume of road-borne traffic with wnich the railways now deal direct. He asked if it be too revolutionary that the whole organization of railway goods managers, with their yards or depots and staffs, should be A/6 transferred to the R.T.E.This would leave to the Railway Executive the whole responsibility of running the trains in and out of the goods stations, also there is no real operational affinity between road passenger transport and road goods transport.
When Will GovernA CCORDING to the presimerit Spending be r-L dent of the Liverpool Checked . • . . Industrial Advisory Council, the nationalized industries are costing the State £350,000,000 a year, made up from loss of profit, increased costs and reduction in the contributions by way of taxation. It is not so many years ago that this sum was the total revenue accruing to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and it is a regrettable sign of the times that so little attention is now paid to such a vital factor. . Almost daily the Government is adding to our financial liabilities, as if the national income of the country were inexhaustible. Reserve Road TransAMERICA is busily port Companies 1-1engaged in organizing its Forming in America army programme of affiliating road transport reserve units with the Transportation Corps, a defence measure which will provide the military authorities
with light and heavy transport vehicles. Already passenger and goods transport associations are co-operating well and companies are being formed in many States.
Overseas Drivers " USTRALIA seems to be Could Learn Courtesy perturbed at the dangerous from Ours . . driving of heavily laden vehicles. The Road Safety Council of New South Wales says that it is receiving complaints from many of its branches. Drivers are accused of keeping to the centre of the road, leaving obstructions, such as chocks, on the roadway after the vehicles have ueen standing on hills, and having no respect for other users of the road. Many do not dim their lights to approaching vehicles There must be some different spirit there, because our drivers in Britain far more often receive -praise for courtesy and the safe conduct of their machines than they do leproaches for breaches of road fellowship.
Soviet Engineer Builds A UTOMOBILE engineers New-type Gas " in Soviet Russia are still
Producer endeavouring to devise a really satisfactory gas producer for motor vehicles. The latest, built by an engineer named Kam, is designed to consume fuel of low quality and to give a greater range with one filling. It is claimed that producers of older patterns could operate for only two or three hours without being refuelled. The new model will give a service of 8-15 hours, and it consumes wood and peat. No further details are, however, available..