Sir Robert Explains Glasgow Report
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THE railways and the Scottish Omnibuses group could cater for traffic outside Glasgow much better than the municipal services, said Sir Robert Inglis, when he explained his committee's report on the transport problems of the area to the executive committee of the Clyde Valley Planning Advisory Committee, last week.
It is understood that Sir Robert stressed the urgency of reaching a decision on the recommendations of the report and said that initiative lay with the advisory committee. It was a matter of getting the railways, the Scottish Omnibuses group and Glasgow Transport Department together. Glasgow's trams would have to be abolished and the city would have to make up its mind about its future means for transport.
Emphasizing the economic losses resulting from street congestion, he said that traders lost about kiln. a year through traffic delays, and it was estimated that the higher insurance premiums on motor vehicles in Glasgow • and district added another £1m. to the normal rates.
Cllr, R. McAllister, convener of Glasgow Transport Committee, said that the corporation would need to have strong influence in any organizatiop set up to control transport in the area.
13 MEN WORK FIVE LORRIES 'WHEN Mr. Richard Stamper, MaryW port, applied to the Northern Licensing Authority last week to carry sheep from sales at Bellingham, Hawick and Hexham, in addition to general goods within a 32-mile radius, be stated that he employed 11 drivers besides himself and his brother to work five lorries day and night to meet his customers' demands.
Mr. F. J. McHugh, for the Railway and Road Haulage Executives, withdrew his objection when the applicant agreed to confine his work in connection with sheep sales to within seven miles of the base at Flimby. The application was granted.
ISRAEL TO CUT TYRE IMPORTS TWO tyre factories have been set up J. in Israel and the country expects to save on the 58m. which it has been spending each year on the import of
tyres. Some 500 American stockholders have established works near Hadera, where the Alliance Tyre and Rubber Co. has commenced work under the supervision of the Dayton Rubber Co., Ohio. The second factory, that of the General Tyre and Rubber Co. 7 Akron, Ohio, has been established at Petah Tikvah.
OBITUARY
WEregret to record the death of Ma. H. W. WILLIAMS, a member of the engineering staff of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., who died as a result of injuries received in last week's railway disaster.