Livestock Carriers' Request to Ministry
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TO avoid distress and suffering among young animals, and delays in arrival at markets, livestock vehicles should be stopped in roadside checks only when empty, or should be examined at operators' premises. This Northern areasponsored recommendation by the livestock committee was approved by the RHA executive committee on Wednesday, and is to be passed to the Ministry of Transport.
The executive was also told that at a recent meeting discussing a draft convention for the international carriage of livestock, Britain's conditions of road carriage were held up as a model, and may be used as a basis for international recommendations.
On vehicle security, some executive committee members commented on the scarcity of guarded lorry parks, notably in Birmingham, and the vehicles security committee is to examine this again soon.
Progress on implementing Conference resolutions was reported. The Ministry's method of assessing and publicizing GV9 figures is to be examined by the vehicles and highways committee at its next meeting, while the suggested technical training scheme is being looked at by the industrial training sub-committee of the labour relations committee, and the recommended use of speed and time recorders is to form part of the labour committee's review of the whole field.
Big AECs for Tayforth
nVER £1 m, worth of orders were added
to AEC's Zli m. Scottish order book during the Glasgow Show. The largest single order was from Tayforth Ltd., holding company for many haulage concerns, for 54 Mandator, Mammoth Minor and Mercury tractive units. Claben Ltd. and Munro's Transport (Aberdeen) Ltd. have ordered 40 Mandator tractive units, while 170 vehicles have been ordered by Sam Anderson, James Hemphill, J. G. Barrack, Maebrayne, John Rhind, and James Whiteford.
South of the border, Hall and Co. Ltd. have ordered 42 Marshal six-wheel chassis and 20 Mammoth Major eight-wheelers; and LPGAS Ltd. (Calor Gas) has contracted to add 30 new Mandator tractive units to the experimental one it operated last year.
MPs Hear Roads Plan
(IN Wednesday the all-party roads study
group of the House of Commons was addressed by Prof. E. V. Morgan on his proposals for a 15-year road programme costing 17,100 m. The Roads Campaign Council says the Morgan report has been the most rewarding project sponsored in 10 years, drawing wide support and much interest.