Ministry Evading Highway Duties
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" ONE cannot help feeling that the agreement to experiment with yet more restrictions [in Slough] will enable the Ministry of Transport and the central Government to evade
responsibilities as the highway authority for trunk traffic for a few more years. The danger is that attempts will Undoubtedly be made to foist these restrictive measures on other authorities."
This was stated by Mr. R. E. G. Brown, secretary of the London and Home Counties Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association,. when he addressed the Western Division at Bridgwater last' week. He was speaking about traffic restrictions, including noloading bans.
' The situation in many towns, he added, had alreadY leached a point where such pallid restrictive measures could make no effective contributionto the traffic problem. He looked forward to the day when a local authority would flatly refuse to hamstring its own trade for the benefit of through traffic.
Huntingdon had already provided a welcome lead in that direction by,refusing to consider a proposal that loading and unloading should be banned in the HighStreet for most of the working day.
"HEAR FURTHER EVIDENCE," SAY TRIBUNAL THE Transport Tribunal last week I referred a case back to a Licensing Authority with no direction other than that " he may come to a decision on the merits of the application in the light of further evidence."
Mr. W. B. Cooper, Regan Crescent, Shortheath Road, Birmingham, 23, wished the conditions of his B licence to allow him to operate his four vehicles within 50 miles, carrying solid fuel. The West Midland Licensing Authority had allowed one vehicle to carry open-cast coal within 50 miles, and the other three to transport solid fuel within the same radius, but each for a different customer.
Mr. N. Carless, for the appellant, disagreed with Mr. D. MacDonald, for the British 'Transport Commission, on the question whether the Hams Hall electric power station would have difficulty in obtaining coal supplies. Mr. MacDonald said that an extension of the conditions was unnecessary.
MR. LITTLEWOOD WINS AGAIN
IN the face of rail opposition, Mr. 1 C. G._ Littlewood, Sheffield, was on Monday given permission by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority to run an ekpress service between Sheffield and Barmouth on Saturdays in July and August. He was also authorized to operate express services to Hornsea and Southsea for elderly and disabled persons taking advantage of cheap holiday facilities.
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Men in the News
MR. CECIL T. SKIPPER, joint managing director of Dennis Bros., Ltd., has resigned from the board.
MR. P. H. FORREST has become general line representative of the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., in Sussex.
MR. D. S. McPttAiL, manager of the Dunlop sub-depot in Dundee, has left the company after 42 years' service to settle in Toronto.
MR. J. G. ORR Will become secretary of the Engineers' Guild with effect from December 3. MR. J. H. W. TURNER will resign his honorary secretaryship.
MR. L. W. SIMPSON, engineer of Hebble' Motor Services, Ltd., has been appointed chief engineer of East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd. He will take op his new duties on January 1.
MR. K. C. KrrcHENErt has been appointed manager of Arlington Bodybuilders, Ltd. He was formerly general manager of Associated Coachbuilders, Ltd., and before that he was with Santus Motor Body Works, Ltd.
MR. HAROLD ELLIOTT, chief traffic officer, British Road Services, has been nominated by the British Transport Commission to replace MR. C. 13AaruNGToN, general manager, B.R.S. (Parcels), Lid., as a member of the Coastal Shipping Advisory Committee.
Ma. E. C. TUFF, chief engineer of United Automobile Services, Ltd., has been appointed chief engineer of the Birmingham and Midlaild Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., in succession to MR. S. C. VINCE. Mr. Tuff will be taking up his new post on a date to be agreed.
OBITUARY
WE regret to announce the deaths of MR. J. B. WHITFIELD and MR. GEORGE B. LISSENDEN.
Mr. Whitfield was a director of Lake and Elliot, Ltd., and until 1950 held an executive appointment with the company. He was 70.
Mr. Lissenden was traffic ,controller of Lever Bros., Ltd., Port Sunlight, from 1918 until his retirement in 1946. An international authority on transport, he lectured at Liverpool University and Liverpool School of Commerce. He was a contributor to The Commercial Motor for many years.
AUSTRIA AGREES ON SAFETY
AUSTRIA has joined the 19 states which have so far ratified the United Nations convention on road traffic, which is designed to increase road safety and to standardize highway codes throughout the world. It has also ratified the protocol on road signs and signals, and the European agreement supplementing both the convention and the protocal. Britain is not among the 19 nations.