Big Expannon in European Transport
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EUROPEAN inland goods transport requirements will rise by about 18 per cent. by 1960, stated the Organization for European Economic Co-operation, in a report issued in Paris on Tuesday. Inland water and road transport needs are expected to increase by 30 per cent. and 25 per cent respectively, although the demand for public surface passenger transport will .rise only modestly because of competition from private cars. • The volume of transport, however, is expected to double.
The biggest single item of investment would be in road vehicles, and the biggest proportional increase in investment in air transport, harbours and docks, the report predicts.
IRetween .1950 and 1955, the number of vehicles on the roads of Western Europe rose by 75 per cent., and there was likely to be a 50-per-cent. increase between 1955 and 1960. Needs for road construction were' enormous, and even if the present investment rate were doubled this might still be inadequate.
£100 FINES FOR BREAKING LICENCE RULES
EINES totalling £100, plus £5 s. .I. advocates' fees, were recently imposed on Leo Hennigan, a Selby haulier, at the East Riding Magistrates' Court, York, for using a vehicle without a licence and using a licence disc with intent to deceive.
The prosecution stated that Hennigan had sold his vehicles and transferred -the licences to another Selby haulier in 1955. A 15-ton platform lorry was registered in the defendant's name in March, 1956, but no application had been made for a carrier's licence. When stopped in Barlby, the lorry was said to bear an A-licence disc issued to Hennigan for one of the vehicles which he had previously sold.
Hennigan pleaded guilty and said that he had been hoping to take over a special A-licence vehicle from London. but the transfer had not gone through.
TELEHOIST CAPACITY GROWS
NAODERNIZATION of, and extenMsions to, the Cheltenham works of Telehoist, Ltd., now enable the company to manufacture about 80 per cent. of the steel. bodies required for their contracts, stated Mr. A. Palmer, general manager, this week. New equipment has been installed in about 20,000 sq. ft. of workshops, and another 30,000 sq. ft. of space added at a cost of some £40,000.
MINISTRY WARNING ON PETROL nRIVERS who obtain petrol without
surrendering coupons are liable to prosecution, warned the Ministry of Power on Tuesday. Cases of evasion of rationing will be immediately investigated.