"STRIKE "ON FIVE-YEAR ROAD PLAN?
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The general dissatisfaction with the progress of the five-year road plan finds expression in a proposal by some counties to refuse to carry •out the programme unless unless grants be increased.
Recently, 17 of the more rural counties sent a joint deputation to the Ministry of Transport urging—without success—increased grants for road work other than normal maintenance.
• According to reports of this deputation now being made to the counties concerned, a " private " meeting was held and a resolution expressing dissatisfaction with the Ministry'e. refusal was passed. Some of the counties' representatives proposed, according to these reports, a " strike" against the five-year programmes. A joint deputation plan for the counties is to be framed.
Merioneth Roads Committee has approved further joint action by the county authorities. Unless the Ministry meets the reasonable requirements of the affected counties, the Merioneth authority will, it is stated, abandon the remainder of the programme.
Stewart and Ardern's Progressive Trading.
During the course of a speech at the statutory meeting of Stewart and Ardern, Ltd., yr. Gordon Stewart, the chairman, in commenting on the progressive trading of the company, said that records show that 4,537 cars and light vans were sold in the quarter ended December 31, 1935, an increase of 942 vehicles over the corresponding quarter of 1934. He viewed the prospects for 1936 with optimism.
Repair-certificate Scheme: New Centre.
A new centre for practical tests in connection with the repair-certificate scheme of the Institution of Automobile Engineers has been opened in Manchester, under the direction of Dr. G. F. Mucklow. This now makes a total of six centres in which practical tests in Section A—Mechanical, are held, and the formation of further centres will be considered wherever sufficient applications are received by the Institution. The first practical test in the Lancashire centre will be held on the Caine day as that in other centres, i.e., January 25.
Ban on Vehicles Weighing Over 2f Tons Unladen Suggested.
That vehicles weighing over 21 tons unladen should not be allowed to operate on the roads, was a surprising suggestion put before a meeting of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, last Friday. The meeting was considering the memorandum of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce.
Alderman Edgar Smith, commenting on this suggestion, said that a limit of 2i tons unladen for goods vehicles was far too low. , He explained that the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders was strongly against further road-vehicle restrictions, which Were dictated by the railway companies.