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Minister Thanks Sir Brian
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NOW that petrol rationing has ended, I would like to thank you and British Road Services very warmly for the help you have given me and my department since rationing began. I particularly appreciate the help British Road Services has given to Regional Transport Commissioners and their staffs who, as you know, have borne the brunt of this difficult operation."
This has been stated by Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, in a letter to Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of the British Transport Commission.
Speaking of the contribution of British Railways, the Minister said that at the peak of the Suez emergency in February they succeeded in carrying 20 per cent. more passenger and 15 per cent. more goods traffic than in the corresponding month of 1956.
The goodwill won by the railways during the emergency would stand them in good stead, and help them through the difficult years that must elapse before the modernization programme began to have its full effect on railway traffic.
PYE TRIALS START
TRIALS of two-way radio equipment operating on 25 kc/s. channel spacing have been started by Pye Telecommunications, Ltd., Newmarket Road, Cambridge, and are expected to be completed by the autumn. The company will shortly be conducting tests with equipment using 115 kcfs. channel spacing in the 80 Me/s. band.
MORE SCARABS FOR MM.
AN order for 11 Scarab mechanical horses and 29 semi-trailers has been placed with Scarnmell Lorries, Ltd., by Malayan Railways. The vehicles are required, for work at the docks of Penang and Port Swettenharn. Demands now in hand with the cornpany for Malayan Railways will entail the doubling of the existing 'fleet of 16 tractors and 43 semi-trailers.