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road designed to open up a faster and better route for traffic between the Midlands and South Wales, will start in the spring. Estimated cost of the project is £6m.
The first step will be a 11-mile by-pass at Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and then work will begin on three miles at the eastern end of the motorway, including a bridge nearly 1 mile long over the River Severn. These two schemes will take 21 years, and work on the centre stretch should be completed at the same time.
There will be two 24-ft. carriageways, with no connections, except at the ends of the motorway and at two flyover junctions. Vehicles will not be allowed to wait on the carriageway, but in cases of emergency drivers will be able to park on the verges.
REMOVAL BY AIR: NOT LATE FOR SCHOOL WHEN Mr. J. K. Day, a housemaster Yv at Ciresharn School. Holt. Norfolk, was appointed headmaster of Elizabeth College, Guernsey, he had little time to move his furniture between the end of term at Holt andY the start of term at the college. Therefore the contractors, Mr. S. Watson and Mr. R. MacEwen (Messrs. J. N. Anderson). 44 Kcmpe Road, London. N.W.6, decided, as they had done on a previous occasion five years ago, to charter a Bristol Freighter of Silver City Airways, Ltd.
A Guy Vixen was loaded at Holt on the Tuesday of last week and the next day the 4 tons of furniture was transhipped into the aircraft at Lydd airport. Three men and Mr. Day's family flew with the load, and at Guernsey airport two vehicles, a Karrier Bantam and a Morris 30-cwt„ were provided by Messrs. A. N. Saich to deliver the furniture to the college about 11 miles away. The contractors' men were back home at 7 p.m.
TORONTO DAIRY ORDERS MORE COMMUTERS
OPERATORS of 24 Smith's N.C.B. Commuter vehicles, Paulger's Blantyre Dairies, Toronto, Canada, have ordered a further six to the value of S34,500. These will have similar bodywork to the vehicles already in use, with sliding cab doors and provision for the driver to stand while driving.
Mr. E. A. Paulger. executive of the concern, has told a conference of Ontario milk distributors that the Commuters were a highly economic and reliable form of transport. even during the winter.
CUT FUEL TAX—A.B.C.C.
I-1 A SUBSTANTIAL reduction in fuel tax is one of six recommendations for inclusion in the Budget which the Association of British Chambers of Commerce published on Tuesday. They also ask for the removal of purchase tax from goods used in industry.