Standard Rules for Indicators?
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PROPOSALS concerning winkinglight direction indicators are to be circulated by the Minister of Transport. These will require that indicators fitted to vehicles registered after 1958 should be amber, meet certain standards of brightness and be separated from other lights.
This was announced by the Minister in the House of Commons last week. He had been advised by the Road Research Laboratory that one type of indicator should be adopted as standard but he could not accept this recommendation.
Mr. R. Gresham Cooke (Con., Twickenham) was told at question time that the Minister was examining the question,whether to advance lighting-up time in summer to half an hour after sunset, instead of an hour.
Mrs. J. Butler (Lab., Wood Green) learned that there were 155 accidents in London from September 22, 1955, to March 31 this year, involving unlighted standing vehicles. The total number of accidents in the same period was 9,500. The Minister understood that the regulations permitting parking without lights were working-smoothly.
Suggestions about the -staggering of working hours from the Transport Users' Consultative Committee for London have been given careful and detailed consideration, the Minister informed Mr. Ernest Davies. An official announcement would be made "before long."
Mr. Davies was also told that the printing dispute had delayed the publication of the annual report and accounts of the British Transport Commission. The report would be available about the end of June.
Had it not been for the dispute, the report would have appeared earlier than usual because the material was more quickly prepared added the Minister.
The report stage of the Road Traffic Bill will be taken in the House of Commons next Wednesday and Thursday and the third reading on Friday.