Oil Consumption Rises • by 8:5 Per Cent.
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(NIL consumption in this country last kJ year was 8.5 per cent. higher than in 1955. Consumption of petrol at 6.3m. tons was only 1.3 per cent. greater than in 1955, and there was a 1.2-percent. drop in the last quarter of 1956, compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, because of the Suez emergency..
Deliveries of premium grades -represented more than half the total petrol supplied and rose by 3.7 per cent., whereas deliveries of ordinary' grades declined by Li per cent. The Petroleum Information Bureau attribute this trend to the increasing use of oil-cngincd vehicles, which also accounted for a 12.3-per-cent, rise to 1.8m. tons in deliveries of oil fuel.
Estimated figures for petrol consumption by different classes of user show that • goods vehicles consumed 2.2m. tons of fuel in 1956, public service vehicles 120,000 tons, taxis 50,000 tons, and private motorists and motorcycles 3.1m. tons out of the total 6.3m. It is reckoned that goods vehicles used 907,000 tons of oil fuel and public service vehicles 845,000 tons.
WORK BEGUN ON SWANSEA APPROACH ROAD
WORK started on Tuesday on two schemes to improve Swansea's eastern approach. They will cost more than £646,000, towards which the IVIinister of Transport has decided to make grants. Route A483, which links Swansea to the Earlswood Roundabout on the Neath by-pass, is severely restricted at Dan ygraig by two railway bridges giving access to sidings north of the road. The sidings will be moved to the south side;. the bridges will be demolished and the road will he widened to take two 22-ft.-wide carriageways.
'The vale of Neath railway bridge over the same route will be reconstructed and lengthened to allow construction of the two 22-ft.:wide carriageways.
E.C.W. BODIES FOR SHEFFIELD A N order for five Leyland PD2 rn. chassis with bodywork by Eastern Coachworks, Ltd., has been placed by Sheffield Joint Omnibus Committee, Eastern Coachworks bodies have not previously been specified by Sheffield and are normally available only to undertakings controlled by the British Transport Commission, but some of the committee's vehicles arc railway owned, and it is apparently for this section of the fleet that the new vehicles have been ordered.
METERS FOR MAYFAIR VESTERD AY Westminster City 1 Council considered a plan to set up 667 parking spaces with meters in Mayfair. Except at certain points close to important street junctions, goods vehicles would be able to load and unload anywhere in the area.