• 12-seaters : Ministry Meeting Next Week
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Els EPRESENT ATIVES of four oper
ators' associations are to meet the Minister of Transport next Tuesday to discuss the Minister's proposals to allow 12-seat utilities to be used as buses in rural areas. This would necessitate relaxation of the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness) Regulations, a course to which operators have indicated opposition.
The organizations concerned are the Municipal Passenger Transport Association, Passenger Vehicle Opera tors' Association, Public Transport Association and Scottish Road Passen• ger Transport Association.
UNION CALL FOR BOLD ROAD PLAN
nURING the closing session of their
conference at Torquay last Friday, the Transport and General Workers' Union called for a bold plan to modernize Britain's roads.
Mr. Frank Cousins, general secretary, said that bad roads were stifling economic development. Traffic congestion around industrial development sites was nullifying the advantages of improved production methods.
Finance provided for road improvements was regarded as wholly inadequate. A resolution, which was passed, urged that the powers and duties of road safety committees should be extended.
ATOMIC EQUIPMENT BY ROAD TO GENEVA
AA LOAD of atomic equipment, so delicate that a jolt of .020 in. could damage it, left Manchester by road for Geneva last Saturday. Smith's of Eccles, Ltd., used a standard Leyland Beaver with a Crane drawbar trailer to carry the 9-ton consignment, bound for the European Council for Nuclear Research. The lorry and trailer were both fitted with special turntables.
Metropolitan-Vickers, who manufactured the equipment—part of the outer steel shell of a linear accelerator— placed it in a long cradle designed to take up the play at hump-back bridges or awkward corners. The 40-ft. load crossed the Channel by the TilburyAntwerp ferry.
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