Call for Start on New Motorway
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INDUSTRIES in Sheffield and the West I Riding of Yorkshire which use road transport urgently need facilities for the fast "carriage of goods. With this in mind strong" representations have been made to the Minister of Transport by West Riding County Council and other local authorities for an early start on the proposed new Sheffield-Leeds motorway, according to Ald. A. Dwyer, chairrnan of the West Riding Highways Committee.
"We are doing all We possibly can to make the Minister realize how important it is to this area that he should bring the project into his immediate road programme," he said last week.
He was speaking immediately after the county council's meeting, when he had successfully" demanded £63,000,000 for roads expenditure—excluding by-passes at Doncaster and Wetherby and the Sheffield-Leeds motorway. It was useless for motorways to be built, be maintained, if they did not link highly industrial areas. •
TWO MORE TIPPERS FOR .TARMACADAM
TWO tippers to carry tarmacadam and
sand and gravel products within 100 . miles were addedto the A licence of Mr. G. E. S. Tanner, Wootton-under-Edge, by Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, last week.
Mr. Tanner applied for three vehicles. but as the supporting evidence for the third was only in the form of letters, he was told that this would be refused.
Mr. B. Palfrey, sales manager of Cromhall Quarries, said that the existing supply of vehicles was "hopeless." About 25 hauliers were being employed and hie new contracts were in the offing.
• " I have been granting additional vehicles to meet the quarrying industry requirements. Has this not made a difference to you?" asked Mr. Nelson.
"No, sir. And I should like to point out that slack periods are now a thing of the past," replied Mr. Palfrey.