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No Deposit Now for Lorries or Buses
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I ORRIES, buses and heavy vans can
now be bought under hire-purchase agreements without a deposit being paid. These vehicles were among a large number of goods on which hire-purchase restrictions were lifted on Tuesday. Previously a 20 per cent, deposit had been compulsory.
Cars still carry a 331 per cent. deposit, but when they are rented only four months' rental now has to be paid in advance instead of nine months'.
Restrictions are also eased in the case of one company assuming control of another which may have vehicles on hire purchase. It is no longer necessary for a licence to be obtained from the Board of Trade for the new company to keep up the payments without paying a furtherdeposit.
LOADING BAN SUGGESTED AT NEWCASTLE
ABAN on loading and unloading in main streets during certain hourshas been recommended by a traffic committee appointed at Newcastle upon Tyne. The committee suggest that theban should operate between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m., 12 noon and 2 p.m., and 4.30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
The committee say this move would solve some of the city's traffic problems. They also suggest that in future there should be no charge for the use of car parks, except for those parks catering solely for goods vehicles.
The corporation are to employ a traffic engineer whose duties will include the co-ordination and supervision of traffic plans.
EXPRESS DRIVERS COMPETE
TWENTY drivers of the Express Dairy Co., Ltd., competed at Ruislip, Middx, last Sunday, for the title of Company Driver of the Year, following a series of eliminating rounds held at depots throughout the country, in which men with a record of at least four years' safe driving were eligible to compete. There were four man ceuvring tests in which the contestants drove their own vehicles.
The three best drivers, J. Hudson. J. Dakin and H. Battatsby, then went through the tests again, driving a new Bedford 3-4-tonner, a type which none of them had handled before. Dakin emerged as the outright winner.
MERIDEN BY-PASS OPEN nNE of the two carriageways of the
Meriden By-pass, near Birmingham, was opened to traffic on Monday, four months ahead of schedule. It is expected that the second carriageway will be in use by the end of the month.
The new five-mile road is part of a comprehensive plan to provide twin two-lane routes on A45 between Dunchurch and Birmingham, carrying traffic from the London Birmingham motorway. The by-pass, which cost £600,000, avoids the village of Meriden and Meriden Hilli which has a bad accident record.