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" 20 " Discs Abolished: Longer . Double-deckers O N June 23,
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"20" discs will be abolished. As from that date it will also be unnecessary for the speed limit to be painted on the near 'sides of heavy goods vehicles and tractors, including tracked vehicles. The permitted .overall length of public -service vehicles registered before July 1, 1956, will be increased from 27 ft. to 30 ft. It will now be possible to lengthen old double-deckers.
Restrictions on the use of inboard brakes will be modified.
A fire-engine in the heavy motorcar class, not exceeding 20 ft. overall, may have an overhang 9 in. longer than a measurement equal to half the wheelbase, but the overhang must not exceed 7/24 of the Overall length. These changes are made in the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) .(Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1957. and the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1957 (Stationery Office, 3d. each).
, RkCTOR ATTACKS SUNDAY • HAULAGE WORK
A.N attack on Sunday lorry driving r‘ is made by the Rev. F. L. Wyman, rector of St. Paul's Church, York, in the Tune issue of his parish magazine. " There are great numbers [lorries] tearing along every Sunday, as though the life of the firm they represent is dependent upon the Sunday desecration," he 'writes. "In this we have witnessed a slow but sure incoming of a tide." Mr. William Bridge, head of Flower's Transport, York, and chairman of the West Riding Area of the Road Haulage Association, told The Commercial Motor that he thought many drivers worked on Sundays because they received double pay. There was, he said, more Sunday working by British Road Services than under private enterprise. He believed that drivers should 'have Sundays off wherever possible, although perishable and seasonal traffic had to be Moved on this day as well as•on any other. " Sunday working is • not, I think, essential even on trunk routes, as lorries can in many cases start their journeys at midnight on Sundays," he added.