Drivers Must Stop After Approach Studs
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rlA DRIVER, even having crossed the road studs marking the approach to a pedestrian crossing, must stop if anybody steps on to the crossing.
This was affirmed in the Queen's Bench Division on Tuesday. The police contested a decision of Denbigh magistrates, who dismissed a charge against a driver whose car was already over the approach studs to a crossing when a woman, looking neither left nor right, proceeded on the crossing.
She was struck by the car 9-12 ft. from the kerb. The Lord Chief Justice said that the limits of a crossing were the studs bordering the stripes. The magistrates, in holding that the limit was marked by the approach studs were wrong, and would be directed to record an offence.
33,046 VEHICLES MADE IN APRIL DRODUCTION of goods vehicles in
April totalled 33,046 units, the Board of Trade stated on Tuesday. This compared with 27.525 in the same month of 1959. Output of passenger vehicles in April of this year at 1,370, however, was only one more than in April, 1959.
Weekly average production of goods vehicles last month was 8,262, slightly below that for the first quarter, 8,455, but favourably comparable with the rate in April last year, 6,881.
Exports of goods vehicles last month totalled 12,430 and of passenger vehicles 491. Comparable figures for April, 1959, were 10.488 and 303 respectively.
Addressing apprentices of Commer Cars, Ltd., last week, Mr. Timothy Rootes, sales and service director of the Rootes Group, warned that the motor industry was on the verge of the greatest period of competition it had ever known.
TURNING BACK THE CLOCK THE suggestion that an efficient rail service could emerge as a result of the penalization of road transport would be turning back the hands of the clock with a vengeance, said Mr. H. R. Featherstone, national secretary of the Traders Road Transport Association. He was commenting on the presidential address, by Mr. Ray Gunter, M.P., at the conference of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (see page 540).
Members of the T.R.T.A. who made use of all forms of transport had a natural interest in the provision of efficient rail facilities. But, commented Mr. Featherstone, the T.R.T.A. survey showed beyond doubt that traders used their own vehicles for sound economic reasons.
By doing so they secured speed of delivery, punctuality and door-to-door service. Whenever the railways gave that kind of service traders would use it.
EATON AXLE BOOM
THE demand for Eaton axles last year was greater than ever before, Mr. C. G. Twallin, chairman of the E.N.V. Engineering Co., Ltd., told the shareholders on Tuesday.