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Road Transport Topics
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in Parliament
By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent BIG INCREASE OF VEHICLES PER ROAD MILE. THE rapid development of road traffic has been in the past few days impressively expounded by M,P.s in their anxiety to keep the Road Fund intact for its original purpose. That the Treasury are now taking over a lucrative form of revenue, which is growing rapidly, was contended by Mr. B. Smith, a Transport Union official, who stated that from 1926 to 1935 the number of buses in use increased from about 40,000 to 47,000 and goods vehicles from 257,000 to 435,000.
In the same period the mileage of classified roads increased by only 11.1 per cent. The number of motor vehicles per mile of classified roads rose from 34.6 in 1924 to 59.2 in 1935.
It was pointed out also that the Royal Commission on Transport in 1930 recommended that in future twothirds of the cost of the highways should be borne by motorists, yet in 1930-31, motorists paid £40,000,000, or a sum equivalent to the annual cost of the whole highways system.
RECORDS EXAMINERS MAY BE INCREASED.
A SUGGESTION that there is con1-1 tinued and frequent breach of Section 19 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, has led the Minister to promise to consider whether the forty examiners who are exclusively engaged in examining records, could with advantage be increased.
• COMPLAINTS ON WAGES.
I T has been brought to the attention of the Minister of Transport that the non-observance of Section 93 of the Road Traffic, Act, 1930, which deals with wages and conditions, by a number of transport undertakings, is placing law-abiding employers at a disadvantage in trading. Mr. HoreBelisha announces that he has received representations on this subject from the Minister of Labour by the National Joint Conciliation Board for the Road Motor Transport Industry (Goods), and these arc now engaging his attention.
A TRAILER-DUTY CONCESSION.
THE additional duty on goods vehicles, if used for drawing trailers, is not to apply to farm trailers ,after December 31, this year. This concession in the Finance Bill was secured by Sir Joseph Lamb, a Staffordshire farmer M.P. He pointed out that when a trailer contained goods, the reason for the extra tax was that it was increasing the earning capacity of the motor vehicle to which it was attached. That was not the case with farm implements, which were attached to motor vehicles for conveyance from one field to another a, short distance away.
The concession was given readily because few of these farm vehicles travel on the public highway and the loss to the revenue would be negligible.