Reduced Eyesight Standard for Walking Drivers E YESIGHT standards for driving
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a pedestrian-controlled vehicle or a motor-mowing machine are reduced in new regulations which come into force on September 30.
Such vehicles (e.g., milk floats) come under driving licence group 3, and at present applicants for such a licence must be able to read a motorcar number plate at a distance of 25 yards.
The new regulations — the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1963 — will reduce this distance to 15 yards. A driver who can fulfil this requirement in good daylight (with the aid of glasses if worn) will no longer be debarred from claiming a driving test or from taking the test. The same standard will also apply in determining the offence of driving with uncorrected vision under section 42 of the Road TrafficAct, 1962.
A new application form. (DL1B) for a licence to drive such vehieles is available at local taxation offices. Drivers of pedestrian-controlled vehicles and mowing machines who hold licences which cover other vehicles are not affected by the change
Coast Lines Buy Into Tayforth THE Liverpool company Coast Lines has carried its graduation into road transport a stage further by acquiring an interest of about 25 per cent in Tayforth
Ltd., the road haulage and food group.
Mr. W. R. Alexander, deputy chairman of Tayforth, and his family have sold 1,142,789 Ord. 5s. shares in Tayforth to Coast Lines at 14s. 6d. each. This represents half the Alexander holding, which before the deal amounted to 51 per cent of the Tayforth equity.
Coast Lines will hold the shares as a trade investment and the Alexander family have declared they do not intend to reduce their Tayforth holding any further.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Rotterdam Opposes: A committee of the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce, in a report on the F.E.C. Commission's transport policy proposals, asks that the plans should be rejected and says that the scheme for international road haulage quotas is completely unacceptable.
MS Extension : Th?, line of route for a further 41 miles of M5, the BirminghamBristol motorway, was proposed in a draft schem,-. published on Friday. The new section will run from the junction with Ross Spar (M50) at Strensham to near Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, where it will connect with the London-South Wales motorway M4), Better Grain Business for U.S.A. Hauliers: More and more grain is being transportzd by road in America. Lorry movement of wheat, corn and soya beans to major middleWestern markets such as Chicago—which took 27 m bushels in the eight months ended August 31 this year—is up by 60 per cent :ix compared with a year earlier.