63% of "Property Unit" Lorries Sold
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QOME 63 per cent. of the vehicles 1.--) offered with premises in list 12 have been sold. This high proportion strengthens . the arguments of the opponents of the Government's new policy on disposal.
Of the 30 "property units" (719 vehicles) offered, 16 units (456 vehicles) have been sold. All tenders for 14 units (263 vehicles) have been rejected.
As reported last week, the sales of vehicles only have set up a record at 91 per cent Taking property and vehicle-only units together, 78 per cent. of the lorries—a record figure—have been sold.
ROSPA. SPEEDING RULE DISPUTE RESENTING safety awards to corn1 pony drivers on Monday, • Mr. W. M. Dravers, general manager of Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., referred to the dispute between operators and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents over the rules of the safe-driving competition.
The competition, he said, had been running smoothly for a long time, but a difference of opinion had arisen over el-te rule that a conviction for speeding was an automatic disqualification.
" We feel the rule may work very harshly," stated Mr. Drovers. Speeding was not in itself necessarily dangerous. A driver doing 35 m.p.h. on an open road might not be jeopardizing road safety in the slightest degree, yet rnight lose his award, whilst another travelling at half that speed in a built-up area might be really
dangerous. : We say that there should be discretion as to whether awards should be granted or withheld in speeding eases, depending on whether or not there has been an element of .danger."
The Society's executive is to discuss the matter next Friday.
ALCOHOL ANTI-FREEZE FAILS TEST Q.AMPLES of anti-freeze comprising kJ three parts of alcohol •to one of ethylene glycol gave the degree of frost protection claimed by the makers when first put in the cooling system, but after a time there was some loss of alcohol, even in a closed-circuit system, with a diminution in protection. • This is stated by the Lancashire county analyst in his annual report. Other samples tested consisted of puke ethylene glycol with a stabilizer, and !hew showed no significant difference in their freezing Points after heating in a boiling-Water bath in an open container for several hours.
ROAD SCHEMES NOT CUT •, N the House of Commons, on 1 Tuesday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the road pro:Iran-Hue already announced would be pursued.