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" 20 " Limit to Go on Report Stage.?

13th April 1956, Page 41
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roNSERVATIVE Members of Parliament expect the speed limit on heavy .goods vehicles. to be raised. from 20 m.p.h. to 30. m.p.h. during the report stage of the Road Traffic Bill. They point out that Mr. Harold Watkinsort, Minister of Transport, has given some strong hints to the industry.

During the committee stage, Mr. G. Nabarro and Mr. R. Gresham "Cooke put forward an amendmeeto increase the limit, but withdrew it to give the Minister further time for consideration, for which he asked. Since that time the Ministry has been dealing urgently with the problem.

The report stage is expected within the next two or three weeks.

NO CHANGE IN ONE-MAN-BUS DEADLOCK WHEN • The Commercial Motor VV closed for press on Wednesday, City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd., were still being prevented by the union from introducing one-man single-deck buses in peak periods as an emergency measure.

The scheme, which was designed to prevent drivers from standing idle when no conductors were available for duty, did not require them to collect fares. Passengers were to have been put on trust to place their fares in a .box provided specially for the purpose.

A similar scheme "• introduced in October by Sheffield Transport Department is working satisfactorily, and the 15 private coaches operating it are paying their way.

" LION'S SHARE" OF PLASTICS

QOME trade unions were claiming the

share of work with plastics materials for bodywork, said Mr. Charles Sprittles, president of the National Employers' Association of Bodybuilders, at the dinner of the Sheffield branch last week. There was "quite a lot to be straightened out" before the matter was clear, he added.

Mr. Sprittles said that he did not mind high wage rates if production were greater. Failure to achieve the best output would have an adverse effect, but this did not appear to be• appreciated in some quarters.

Ald. H. C. Day, mayor of Chesterfield. stressed the need for high-class bodywork, because many goods vehicles were overloaded.

NEW 15-CWT. ELECTRIC

A NEW stand-sit-drive ' electric

rI delivery vehicle, the Commuter Minor 15-cwt. model, Was announced on Wednesday by Smith's Delivery Vehicles, Ltd., Gateshead-on-Tyne., During the past 12 months Commuters to the value of S100,000 have been exported to dairy and bakery operators in Canada.


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