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20th March 1936, Page 39
20th March 1936
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Page 39, 20th March 1936 — Road Transport Topics
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In Parliament

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent

BACK-AXLE WEIGHTS TO BE INCREASED?

THE Minister was asked by Captain Strickland whether he would consider raising the maximum back-axle weight at present allowed On fourwheeled vehicles from 8 tons to 9 tons, so long as the total gross weight did not exceed 12 tons.

Captain Austin Hudson, Parliamentary Secretary, stated, that the Minister would shortly issue a draft Regulation to this effect. He would, however, be prepared to consider any objections that might be raised to it.

NEW ANTI-SKID SURFACING.

WITH regard to the composition of VV the new thin road-surfacing carpet, to which the Minister of Transport recently referred, Sir C. Rawson was informed that it is fully described in a publication of the Stationery Office entitled " Experimental Work on the Roads."

SPEED LIMITS NOT TO BE RAISED.

UipoN the suggestion by Captain %a/Strickland that goods vehicles, now subject to a lower speed limit, should be placed on the same basis as passen

ger vehicles. Captain Hudson said the Minister was not at present prepared to ask:Parliainent to revise speed limits which it settled so recently as 1934.

IMPROVING THE DRIVER'S VIEW.

WITH a view to reducing the number W of road accidents, Mr. Creech Jones asked the Minister to consider regulations governing the height of drivers' seats and sweep of vision so that a full view of the road_ would be assured. Captain Hudson said the S.M.M.T, would shortly be in a position to make recommendations on this matter.

PREVENTION OF RIBBON DEVELOPMENT.

WITH regard to action taken under W the Ribbon Development Act, Mr. Hore-Belisha stated that resolutions had been submitted to him by 54 highway authorities, proposing to bring under the restrictions of Section 2 some 5,000 miles of road, in addition to the 43,000 miles brought under these re strictions by the Act itself. He had already approved about half the resolutions. Five highway authorities had applied for his approval of standard widths under Section 1.

PRODUCE OF PETROL AND MOTOR DUTIES.

oTHE Parliamentary Secretary tdathe 1 Treasury informed Sir H. Seely that the revenues from the petrol tax in 1932-33, 1933-34, and 1934-35, were respectively, £35,172,000, £37,499,000 and £39,535,000. No part of the petrol tax is specifically allocated to road expenditure.

The produce of the Motor Vehicle Duties was, in 1932, £27,910,000, in 1933, £30,712,000, and in 1934, £31,538,000, whilst the issues from the Exchequer to the Road Fund were £22,010,000, £25,512,000, and £26,438,000 respectively, in the same years.

The issues to the Road Fund given above do not include the loan made by the Fund from voted moneys in 1932, which amount was subsequently repaid.

POWER-ALCOHOL OUTPUT.

THE Treasury stated that the quantities of home-made spirit "produced from molasses for power methylated spirit in 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935, were respectively 105,000 gallons, 391,000 gallons, 1,695,000 gallons and 1,475,000 gallon.


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