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INCONTROLLED ribbon development has produced so much clogging of arterial roads with local traffic that, according to Colonel Bressey, it might well be found more economical for lightly constructed service roads to be formed parallel to the main roads.
I N every walk of business life, responsibility gives a person added interest in his or her work, it would be a sad day for the public if the coach operator were regulated and relegated from the position of managing director to that of office boy in a busi ness run by Government authorities. Yet that appears to be the object of certain recent licensing decisions, which are difficult to reconcile with the aims of the Road Traffic Act, 1930. IT is anticipated that one result of the sugar-marketling scheme, which is at present the subject of a,• Government inquiry, will be to strengthen the position of the home sugar industry and to improve the prospects for sugar-beet haulage in future years. The progress of this inquiry, therefore, is one with which hauliers should keep in touch.
MOT long ago we referred to the risk of fire 11 occurring through a driver not noting that a tyre on a trailer had burst. Confirmation of this has been quickly forthcoming, because a few days ago a trailer carrying tin-plate had apparently travelled some miles with a deflated tyre which was cut to ribbons, and the trailer burst into flames, necessitating the calling of the fire-brigade. THE location of bus stops close to traffic light
signals appear:3 to have caused a certain amount of trouble for motor users, who are being prosecuted in increasing numbers for ignoring the signals. Investigations by the Automobile Association show that the lights are sometimes difficult to see, whilst the lack of standardization in the matter of traffic filtration and the problem of the amber light are other questions which are causing some anxiety to law-abiding road users. There certainly appears to be a need for the clarifying of the regulations concerning such signals.
ONE of the most interesting sections of the Ford '-'mammoth factory at Dagenham is the trade school for boys. A part of the manufacturing shop is fitted out as a miniature factory, with machine-tool and other up-to-date equipment similar to that Utilized in ordinary production. Boys of 14 years of age and upwards receive practical instruction in every phase of manufacture, and part of their time is devoted to general educational subjects. They receive wages according to their ability and, when 16 years old, can often safely be entrusted with operations usually carried out only by experienced men. DURING his tour of the roads on Bank Holiday Lithe Minister of Transport, Mr. Hore-Belisha, was greatly impressed by the consideration shown by coach drivers towards other users of the roads. He stated this view on several occasions and expressed his admiration of the way in which Driver White, of the TilRugs coach in which he himself was travelling, handled his vehicle. "If all drivers were as skilful and considerate as this one," he said, "there should be no accidents at all on the roads."
THE editorial staff of The Commercial Motor travelled by road about 1,500 miles during the Bank Holiday period, covering an area of country within a radius of 200 miles of London. Everywhere we found the standard of driving greatly improved, with much less cutting-in than we had noticed on previous holidays. Slow cars still seemed inclined to hug the centre of the road, even if their drivers were courteous enough to beckon on overtaking vehicles. Motorcyclists still took the risk of passing anything at any time, and cyclists constituted a difficulty, many apparently knowing little
regarding the rules of the road. In the North, pedestrians showed a marked contempt of danger, actually walking across. the path of oncoming vehicles after seeing them.