B.R.F. States Policy to Candidates D EMANDS for the alleviation of
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restrictions upon road transport and the improvement of the highway system are contained in a statement of policy circulated to all Parliamentary candidates by the British Road Federation, Dealing with taxation, the statement contends that 85 per cent. of motor fuel is used for commercial purp6Ses.An immediate contribution to reducing the cost of living would be the remission of this year's addition of 44. per gallon to the fuel duty. It was essential that a properly balanced capital-investment programme should provide for modernization of the highways on a scale equal to that of other industrial plant and public utilities.
Raising the speed limit for heavy goods vehicles to 30 m.p.h. would materially assist in averting a transport crisis this winter. The necessary legislation should be passed as a matter of urgency.
Transport users should have freedom of choice.
The Federation represents 250,000 individual concerns.
NEW IEYLAND-THOMPSON TANKER FOR SHELL
CAPABLE of pumping through two IL., hoses at the rate of 350 g.p.m., the Leyland-Thompson Dorset tanker is being put into use by the Shell Aviation Service. The Dorset is to be introduced at points on the British Overseas Airways Corporation's routes 'to be operated by de Havilland Comet.jet aircraft. Sixty machines have been ordered. Their initial cost is stated to be less than two-thirds that of any aircraft fueller of comparable performance.
The Dorset has an electrically welded 3,000-gallon tank of almost square section. A single high-pressure centrifugal pump driven by a power take-off is incorporated, and a special automatic pressure-control valve governs the setting, flow,adjustment and pressure.
During a recent demonstration at London Airport, a Dorset, using a single hose coupled to a Comet, delivered at a continuous rate of 208 g.p.m. The new-tanker weighs 20 tons 19 cwt. laden, and is 29 ft. 10 ins. long, 7 ft. 5 ins, wide and 8 ft. 9 ins. high.