Oil Pipeline Plan
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AJOINT oil pipeline project company is being formed by Esso, Mobil, Petrofina. Regent and Shell-Mex and B.P. which, subject to authorization under the Pipelines Act, 1962, will plan construction of a system connecting the Midlands with refineries and installations on the Thames and Mersey.
The pipelines, to meet Midlands industrial needs over a period of 15 years, should be built by 1965-66 and will carry light products such as petrol, piraffin, diesel fuel, gas oil, aviation, fuels and light feedstocks for gasworks, Dlstribution is planned from terminals near Birmingham, Northampton, Nottngham, and North and West London.
The syStem may become available to other oil companies.
Safety in B.R.S.
h /SORE than 40 safe driving awards • IVI were made last week to drivers of the south eastern division of British Road Services. These were the 1961 awards in the safe driving competition sponsored by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
The awards were made in two sections. In the first, eight medals for at least 25 years' accident-free driving Were presented by Mr. T. G. Gibb, chairman of British Road Services. The first presentation made by Mr. Gibb was to 69-year-old Mr. G. W. ChOat, who received a 41-year gold bar. Mr..Choat is the only driver in the country to receive this award.
In the second section 25 bars, each for a minimum of 20 years' safe driving, were presented.
E.E.C. Legislation ASURVEY of the legislation applying to road, rail and inland waterway transport in the Common Market countries has been produced by the E.E.C. Commission with the assistance of national governments.
Legal terms, regulations, administration in respect of access to markets, tariff systems, technical and financial terms and arrangements are examined country bs country. The whole report forms a useful picture of the ways in which regulation: differ and, by implication, the points or which they will have to be brough together if a common transport policy to be achieved.