Traders to Probe Traffic Troubles in East Midlands
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APROBE into traffic ,troubles in the East Midlands urban areas is being made by East Midlands Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. This is disclosed in the Division's annual report submitted at the .annual meeting at Nottingham, yesterday, and is signed by Mr. K. C. Turner, divisional chairman, who is also deputy president of the T.R.T.A,, and Alderman W. G. E. Dyer, divisional secretary.
In recent months, it was stated, the Divisional Committee had been engaged in drawing up a schedule of proposals for ring-roads and other projects designed to bring relief to congestion in urban areas.
"This is a matter which is still in the process of negotiation and the strongest possible pressure is being brought to bear 'on the authorities to give their urgent attention to this grave problem," says the report..
"The problem of traffic congestion is not merely one of keeping traffic moving; it is also one of fulfilling the purpose for which traffic moves.
"There is an increasing tendency on the part of local authorities to formu
late proposals to ban the loading and unloading of goods vehicles during certain hours. Your committee has spent many hours in earnest deliberation of this aspect of transport operation and cannot resist the conclusion that there is considerable danger that the wide use or this practice could only, in the ultimate. add to the very congestion it is designed to relieve."
Successful Tour
AFTER a round-the-world-in-40-days' sales tour during which he obtained lm. dollars-worth of orders, Baron Rolf Beck, chairman of the Slip Group of Companies, has returned home to forecast a world boom in the next 18 months. He reports a great upsurge in consumer demand in countries where living standards are now rapidly improving. such as in Japan, Africa, Pakistan and Malaya.
The 1m. dollars-worth of orders he secured for the Slip Group, makers of Molyslip and other fuel additives, is expected to increase to 5m. dollars-worth in the next two years.