No-light Parking Outside London

1st June 1956, Page 74

1st June 1956

Page 74

Page 74, 1st June 1956 — No-light Parking Outside London

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OODS vehicles not exceeding 2 tons unladen and passenger vehicles carrying not more than seven passengers may be allowed to park without lights or with parking lights after June 5 in certain roads outside London at the discretion of chief constables. Such parking has been permitted in London since September, 1955, and the conditions for allowing it in the provinces will be the same as for the capital.

Vehicles will not be exempted from full lighting requirements when carrying an overhanging or projecting load on which in extra or substituted light is already required by law, or when a trailer is attached.

The rules extending the concession are the Road Vehicles Lighting (Standing Vehicles) (Exemption) (General) Regulations, 1956.

"SUMMON N.C.B. FOR OVERLOADING"

THE National Coal Board should be prosecuted when coal lorries were overloaded, the chairman of Bakewell magistrates said last week. A driver was fined £1 for having an overload on his lorry and his employers, Winchcombe Transport, Ltd., Codnor, were fined £1 with 2s. 6d. costs.

The driver said that he had no control over loading. The chairman thought that the cause of such offences lay with the N.C.B. He could not understand why the police did not take proceedings against them.

RAIL PLAN IN AUTUMN

" I AM hopeful that by the autumn we

I shall have worked out a clear plan showing industry and the travelling public how the railways are going to make a dramatic come-back over the next few years," Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, told an election meeting at Tonbridge last week. Nationalized industries, he added, must play their part in stabilizing prices.