Smoke, Power-to-weight
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'THERE was no immediate prospect of I a roadside meter being developed which could make useful observations of the smoke emitted by moving vehicles, said Mr. Thomas Galbraith, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, in the Commons this week. The possibility of ping meters which were attached tO a vehicle's exhaust pipe, to enforce statutory standards, was being investigated.
Mi. Galbraith also reported that the fixing of a minimum power-to-weight ratio will be considered by the departmental committee which is developing the scheme for prescribing maximum permissible gross weights for goods vehicles.
The Ministry would co-operate with -local authorities in arranging a comprehensive transport survey in the Manchester conurbation. said Mr. Galbraith. and would gladly send an official to consider ways of doing this.
Mr. Marples told the Commons that the use of other means of transport and the steps taken to reduce the site of roadbornc loads were causing a steady decrease in applications for the movement of large and heavy loads by road. I he regulations giving him control over very large loads had been applied with progressively increasing effect.