Improve Bargaining Position, says Minister
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ruEL ratiOning would be ended as I soon circumstances allowed, but it was essential that the nation should improve its bargaining position bY doing without petrol and poSsibly. some other things as well. ,The Suez Canal Would not be used . unfavourable
terms. • ,'
This was stated by Mr. -Harold .Watkinson,Minister of Transport, when hespoke atthe annual -dinner of the .MetrOpolitan. and • South -'EaStern Area of the Road.Haulage..Association
on Monday. •
There -was a. large reserve Of fitel to meet changing condition-S, Mr. Watkinson said. Advice frOm the Association had been 114611 in Making the rationing scheme a' success. •' • Concerning the removal of the 20 M.p.h. speed. limit for heavy goods Vehicles, he believed that there was a fair chance of obtaining a satisfactory' arrangement between management and men.
Mr. J. T. Turner, chairman, paid
tribute to Mr. S. Jardine; the retiring secretary of the, area, who had servedthe RITA. for 20 years.
COUPON VALUE'S STAND IN the House of Commons on MonI day, Mr. Maudling, Paymaster General, was pressed to increase the value of fuel coupons, but he declined, to do so. He said that stocks were below normal for the time of year and must be conserved. When assessing fuel-rationing prospects, account would be taken of the oil flowing through Syria again.
ROAD LOAN TALKS?
rr HE Chancellor of the Exchequer has been asked by Lord Derwent, chairman of the British Road Federation, to receive a deputation to discuss road loans. In a pre-Budget letter to the Chancellor, Lord Derwent deplores the state of Britain's roads, and points to Continental highway development which will increase the competitive power of those countries' export industries.
STANDARD GAS TURBINE
AGAS turbine engine of 250 h.p. is shortly to be produced by the Standard Motor Co., Ltd. At present it is intended for stationary use. It has overall dimensions of 39 in. by 28/ in. by 30in., and, excluding auxiliary equipment, weighs 350 lb.
PRESTON WINNERS
THE 11 drivers at the Preston bulk terminal of the Mobil Oil Co., Ltd., have won the company's 1956 safedriVing competition. They covered 335,000 miles in 1956 and suffered only five blameworthy accidents. Runnersup were drivers at the Poole bulk plant and the Coventry bulk plant,