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RESTRICTIONS ON ROAD LOCOMOTIVES.

12th April 1921, Page 20
12th April 1921
Page 20
Page 20, 12th April 1921 — RESTRICTIONS ON ROAD LOCOMOTIVES.
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

A LETTER was sent recently by the Ellesmere.

Urban District Council to the Oswestry

Town Council, asking support for a resolution urging the introduction of legislation to deal with what was described afi "dangerous heavy road traffic," either by limiting the numbers of trailers drawn by road locomotives, or tractors, or by enacting that such traffic should be preceded round corners by a man carrying a red flag_ A motion to support -thisresolution was carried without dissent, which is somewhat surprising when we consider the great importance of the issue at stake. Now, more than ever, is it necessary to study rigid economy in the use of goods-carrying vehicles. The cost of the transport of every commodity, including food, is reflected in its price to the consumer, and one of the ways to effect this economy is to reduce the number of prime movers for the same quantity of goods carried, or else to increase the quantity carried for the same number of prime movers by increasing the use of trailers. Certainly, the number of trailers should and must be limited,

and in our opinion with the ordinary type of trailer, -this number should not exceed three, but, to consider bringing into' vogue, once again, the rightly discredited red flag system for such vehicles is, to say the least, absurd. If it were enforced, the utility of vehicle& withtrailers would be so greatly impaired as to render the possibility of their economical operation extremely doubtful.

That the opinions of the Ellesmere and Oswestry Councils are not endorsed in official circles is shown by the fact that the Departmental Committee on the Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles, of which Sir Henry Alayloury is. the chairman, has recently gone most thoroughly into the question as to whether the use of trailers is advisable, and it has decided that there is no evidence to show that this form of goods transport is a danger to other users of the road; in fact, it is stated that the Committee will actually recommend an extension of the use of trailers. This should be a. sufficient answer to those people who question the right of heavy vehicles and trailers to use the roads as freely as other types of vehicles.


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