PROTESTS ABOUT PARKED TRAILERS
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QINCE last July proceedings have been P.--1 taken or process applied for in 23 cases, and 93 oral warnings have been given, in respect of obstruction and other offences by vehicles in Furness Road, London, N.W.10.
This was stated by Mr. David Renton, Minister of State at the Home Office, after Mr. Laurence Pavitt (Lab., Willesden' West) had complained of "large trailers, unattached to any motivating engine and articulated lorries causing obstruction in the road.
The M.P. asked if it was right that the police should have such a heavy burden placed on them and that a factory should "take over the public highway for its own industrial use."
Mr. Archie Manuel (Lab., Central Ayrshire) pointed out that streets in many areas were used by commercial vehicles, and claimed that some of the lorries were never in a garage.
From Mr. Ei.ic Fletcher (Lab., Islington East) came the suggestion that if the existing laws to deal with parked lorries were not strong enough the Minister Should consider whether some measures should be introduced to give the police additional powers.