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ROAD TRANSPORT MATTERS IN PARLIAMENT.

26th June 1928, Page 53
26th June 1928
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New Tyre Factories Opened in the U.K. Accidents and One-way Traffic. Tungsten for High-speed Steel. The Sutton By-pass.

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent.

?THE President of the Board of Trade, on a re_L quest to state the names of factories opened in this country by foreign firms for the purpose of manufacturing tyres since April, 1927, and the names of other firms contemplating the opening of factories in the near future, said he understood that the Michelin Tyre Co. were producing tyres at Stoke-on-Trent and the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. at Wolverhampton. It had been reported in the public Press that tyre factories were being built and equipped bythe India Tyre and Rubber Co. at Inchinnan, near Glasgow, the Overman Cushion Tyre Co. at Birmingham, the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co. at Brentford, and the Pirelli Co. at Eastleigh.

THE President of the Board of Trade has been asked whether, as imported high-speed steel contains from 15 per cent. to 21 per cent. a tungsten and a duty of 33k. per cent is placed on imported tungsten, he would consider placing high-speed steel on the same footing as tungsten in regard to imPort duty. Sir P. Cunliffe-Lister replied that he was aware that steels containing a percentage of tungsten were imported, but the duties imposed under the Safeguarding" Act did not extend to such steels and he did not see his way to adopt the suggestion.

Danger Signs on Sutton By-pass.

ASUGGESTION has been-made that, in view of the accidents on the Sutton by-pass road, the Minister of Transport should consider the erection of danger signs at all the cross-roads on the bypass:

Colonel Ashley said he was informed that during the past three months four accidents had been recorded on this road, only one of which was serious. The erection of signs was a matter, for the local authorities, who had already provided them at certain intersections. Consultation was taking place between his officers and the staff of the county council as to the erection of additional signs,

The Railway. Bills : Information for M.P.s.

A SUGGESTION was made by Sir P. Hall that 1-1.the speeches of counsel in the railway road transport inquiry should be circulated to members before the further stages of the Bill, so that they mightbe fully apprised of the arguments for and against the proposals. The Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. A. M. Samuel, pointed out that the responsibility for publication of the proceedings fell

on the Parliamentary agents, but he had arranged for the suggestion to be brought to the notice of the parties concerned in the Bills.

Sir F. Hall then asked if the Royal Commission on Transport would be appointed before the end of the session and if the proposed terms of reference to the Commission would be available before the report stage of the road transport Bills.

glary would be made or' the terms of reference settled.

Accidents and One-way Traffic.

CONSIDERABLE curiosity has recently been evinced as to the influence of the one-way traffic system upon the number of street accidents, but the figures available are not quite conclusive, as the injuries to pedestrians are not separately classified. The information supplied by the Under Secretary to the Home Office is to the following effect :--From the inception of the system to March 31st, 1928, the accidents at places where roundabout or one-way traffic had been introduced were 6 fatal, 72 serious and 842 slight. For the corresponding period prior to the inception of the system the numbers were 17 fatal, -53 seriousand .617 slight 'Whilst there has been a marked drop in the number of fatal accidents, there has been an increase in the number of non-fatal accidents.

Road Transport and Rating Relief.

T N the committee discussions on the Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Bill last week an amendment was moved by Mr. Barr, a Labour

member, the effect of which would be to extend the proposed derating of railways to road transport. He desired to include passenger vehicles. The proposals for the classification of hereditaments under the' Bill for the purpose of the &rating proposals, which will be presented . in the operative Bills to be introduced in the autumn, apply to freight-carrying railways, canals and docks, but not to road transport. Mr. Barr's argument. was, that passengers were producers and concerned with production as much as freight, raw material, or the finished article conveyed by railway, canal or dock.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain pointed out that any relief given to freight transport would be passed on to certain industries in lower freights, so that omnibuses and tramways would be at no disadvan

Stage. After further discussion the amendment was rejected by 243 votes to 126.


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