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to the C-licensee's freedom is the financial position or the British Transport Commission. according to Mr. C. E. Jordan, chairman of the West Midland Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. He pointed out to Coventry members, last week, that the B.T.C. lost i84m. last year, and no Government could view such a deficit with indifference. It Was unlikely that the B.T.C. would break even in the near future.
Discussing the "Kerb Space is Precious" campaign, Mr. Jordan said its progress would be reviewed in London next month, If the campaign did not succeed loading and unloading restrictions would undoubtedly follow.
Mr. Jordan added that T.R.T.A. membership in the West Midlands was good, but he hoped that an assistant secretary would soon be appointed to help recruitment.
TRANSPORT SCHOLARSHIP IS WORTH £500
APPLICAT1ONS arc being invited for a Rees Jeffreys Studentship, tenable at the London School of Economics, which provides a year's full-time research into the economics of transport. Anyone engaged in the administration of transport or in the production of transport equipment or facilities may apply.
The value of the scholarship is 1500, and it will be tenable from October 1 for a year, although it may be renewed for a second year.
The object of the grant is to promote research " into the economics and means of transport with a view to securing balanced development of the various forms of transport and the progressive lowering of charges."
EASING CONGESTION
AM1LE-LONG relief road, which will ease congestion at Newbury, Berks, was opened on Monday by the Earl of Gosford. The £126,000 road runs cast to west and is the first of two relief roads —the other, not yet started, will run from north to south.
Newbury lies on the A4 Bath road at the point where it is crossed by the A34 Winchester-Oxford-Preston trunk road. During the summer there are often threemile queues of vehicles waiting to get into Oxford Street, which carries traffic from both trunk roads. Now, traffic from London to the west will turn right before reaching the centre of Newbury.
MORE V.H.F. SPACE' TWICE. as many channels for mobile I V.H.F. radio will be available for private services as from June 1. This follows approval by the PostmasterGeneral of recommendations by the Mobile Radio Committee. The latest equipment needs a narrower bandwidth than earlier sets, so that more users can be accommodated within a given frequency range.