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"All Drivers Should Know This Danger "

31st October 1958
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EVERY lorry driver in the country should be told that it is not a safe practice to throw a spare coil of rope on the back of a vehicle, Mr. A. P. Lockwood, Sheffield Coroner, said last week. His remarks were made at the inquest on a Sheffield woman who was killed when she was lassooed by a rope trailing from a lorry and struck her head against a stationary vehicle. The driver said in evidence that he sheeted and roped his load about four miles from the scene of the accident and his tailboard and sideboards were up. He threw a spare coil of rope in the back of his lorry but he had no idea that this was trailing until told of the accident. A lorry-driver witness described how a 30-ft. length of rope trailing from the lorry whipped across the road and wrapped itself round the legs of a woman carrying a baby. It pulled her to the ground and she struck her head on a stationary hearse. P. C. W. Lampard said tests were carried out with a police car and a piece of trailing rope to determine the swinging action when a vehicle was driven up to 30 m.p.h. Tests were made over four miles and at no time would he have seen the rope without purposely looking for it. After a verdict of accidental death had been returned, -the Coroner said there was no criminal negligence on the driver's part,

"HOUSING POLICY AND TV HITTING BUSES"

TELEVISION and the wider spread of city housing are the main factors competing with civic transport, according to Mr. W. M. Little, Edinburgh's transport manager. He told Edinburgh City Business Club that residents on the perimeter were not paying anything like a 300 per cent, increase on pre-war fares, which justified the claim that municipal transport was giving good value. The transport department got no contribution from the rate and drew its revenue entirely from fares. "You get what you pay for, but we try to give value for the money that is paid," said Mr. Little. However, operators were up against stiff competition, not only from organized transport but also from, private cars, scooters and other forms of private transport.

RENAULT-ALFA ROMEO VEHICLE AGREEMENT

rAA N agreement has been entered into between the French Renault and the Italian Alfa Romeo concerns whereby Renault are to undertake the construction and sale in France of all Alfa Romeo vehicles, whilst Alfa Romeo will make under licence and sell in Italy Renault Dauphine private cars. Last year Alfa Romeo produced some 23,000 vehicles and a considerable number of oil engines for marine and industrial purposes.

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Organisations: City Business Club
Locations: Sheffield

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