Tamar Bridge "as Soon as Possible"
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1—X A BRIDGE should be built over the River Tamar as soon as possible, the best available location being to the north of the Royal Albert railway bridge. This recommendation has been made to the Minister of Transport by the technical panel on the proposed Tamar bridge.
To obtain full use of a new bridge, an improved road to the west was required, the panel said. The A374 road should be surveyed.
The need for better Tamar crossings was urgent and even if approval for a bridge were soon given, it would be some time before it was opened. The panel therefore recommended that the hulls of the floating bridges at Torpoint should be extended, and that a second ferry at Saltash and a third at Torpoint should be provided if necessary.
BRIDGE CLOSURE HITS BUS SERVICES
BUS services in South Yorkshire have been seriously affected by the closure for a month of Aldham Bridge. This normally carries about 350 buses a day between Wombwell and Barnsley over the South Yorkshire Navigation Canal.
It has been closed for repairs because of danger of collapse as the result of earth subsidence through coal-mining. The bridge is to be reconstructed. Work will begin in January, when the road may have to be closed again.
The Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., have diverted vehicles via Darfield. Messrs. T. Burrows and Sons, Wombwell, and Messrs. Camplejohn Bros.. Darfield, have introduced shuttle services to each side of the bridge, passengers crossing the bridge from one vehicle to another.
E105,000 ORDER FOR D.B. TRACTORS
ORDERS for wheeled tractors to the value of £105,000 have been placed with David Brown (Tractors) Engineering, Ltd., by the Ministry of Supply. The vehicles are for Service on various airfields in • this country with the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
The contracts bring the value of Ministry of Supply orders for industrial tractors on hand at the company's Meltham factory to well over £350,000. Most of the machines concerned in the new order are model 30 IDT tractors.
SUGAR BEET LICENCES
GOODS-VEITICLE operators in the . East Midland Traffic Area are reminded in the current issue of Applications and Decisions that applications for short-tern licences, and variations of conditions of existing licences, to permit them to carry beet during the coming campaign, should be lodged with the Licensing Authority at least eight weeks before the facilities are desired to take effect.