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"ONLY DRIVERS OPPOSE HIGHER LIMIT"

4th December 1953
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

THE only people opposed to raisir the 20-m.p.h. limit on heavy gooi vehicles were drivers, said Mr. / Tattersall, chief engineer of Leylar Motors, Ltd., at a brains trust he in Durham recently under the auspic of the North of England group of 0 Institute of Road Transport Engineei

Drivers, he said, like to be schedub on a journey from, say, Scotland to ti south of England at about 17 m.p.1 because this gave them ample time use roadside cafés.

Mr. J. C. Lovelock, joint Diesel sal manager of C.A.V., Ltd., said that t reduction in weight necessary to me legal restrictions often entailed skim ing bodywork, wheels, tyres and oth components. As vehicles made for t home market had to serve overseas well, this practice tended to low British manufacturers' prestige.

The question-master at the brai trust was Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northe Licensing Authority.