Home Secretary Wants Traffic Wardens
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LTHOUGH, as reported in The Commercial Motor last week, the proposed scheme for Nottingham to have a corps of traffic wardens has run into difficulties because the finance committee there are disinclined to pay for it, Mr. David Renton, Under-Secretary of State. for the Home Office, stated in the House of Commons on Monday that the Home Secretary would welcome an experiment of this kind. His approval, however, would be necessary if a grant were to be paid towards the extra expenditure.
The wardens would be under police supervision, but would not have powers of direction or prosecution. It would be for the police to charge offenders and bring them before the courts. A trial scheme would provide valuable evidence of the contribution which could be made by a separate force of wardens in helping to keep the streets clear of stationary vehicles.
Mr. Renton said that there had been informal discussions between Home Office officials and representatives of Nottingham Watch Committee with the chief constable on the proposal. Not all chief constables and police authorities were in favour of even a limited scheme on the lines suggested at Nottingham.
1100,000 ORDERS FROM U.T.A.
CONTRACTS to the value of nearly £100,000 have been placed with the Leyland Group by the Ulster Transport Authority for the supply of 68 goodsvehicle chassis.
One order is for 25 Leyland CometScammell tractor chassis of 8-ft. wheelbase, with Scammeil automatic coupling gear. Albion are to supply 43 lightweight Claymore chassis with 72 b.h.p. underfloor oil engines. The chassis have a wheelbase of 11 ft. 10 in., and arc suitable for bodywork giving an internal length of 16 ft. 6 in.
U.T.A. are equipping 20 Claymores with cattle-float bodies: the remainder will be used for general haulage.
NATIONALIZATION LEGAL
APPEALS filed by private transport operators in Uttar Pradesh, India, challenging the validity of the State nationalization of transport, have been dismissed by the Supreme Court of India. It was argued on behalf of the complainants that the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 1956, was wholly repugnant to the provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Act and that the Government of India. should prevail over the State Act.
SHORTER TOURS TO ITALY WHEN the Mont Blanc road tunnel YV from Entreves to Chamonix is opened in 1961 it will be possible to reduce substantially the mileage of coach tours from Britain to Italy, travelling via Paris. The Paris-Turin journey will be shortened by 137 miles and the Paris-Milan route by 194 miles.
It is estimated that 24,000 coaches and buses and 15,000 goods vehicles will use the tunnel each year.