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3rd April 1936, Page 68
3rd April 1936
Page 68
Page 68, 3rd April 1936 — Road Transport Topics in Parliament
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By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent

NO SPEED LIMIT INCREASE.

RECEIVING no encouragement from the Minister of Transport in reply to a further request that the speed limit for heavy vehicles should be raised to 311 m.p.h., between 8 p.m. and 5' a.m., Captain Strickland asked why the Minister considered the passage of a passenger vehicle at 30 m.p.h. as being less dangerous than that of a goods vehicle of equal weight, Mr. HoreBelisha replied: " It is not what I consider, but what Parliament considered."

HOME-PRODUCED CARBIDE.

I N the recent debate on the Caledonian Power Bill prominence was given In the importance of establishing the home manufacture, by hydro-electric power, of calcium carbide, in competition with foreign supplies. Sir Thomas Inskip said the Government appreciated the importance of ensuring sup plies of this material, both in peace and war, and would welcome any scheme to promote its manufacture in the United Kingdom.

Mr. D. Evans suggested that the industry should be established in a distressed area, where there were ample supplies of raw materials, including anthracite and limestone, of cheap power, and of labour.

UNDERGROUND OIL STORAGE.

REPLYING to a request addressed to the Home Secretary that the storage of inflammable spirit in tanks above ground should be forbidden, Mr. G. Lloyd, the Under Secretary for Home Affairs, stated that the protection of stores of oil under conditions of national emergency was receiving the Government's attention. He was not, however, at present in a position to make any statementt, on the measures which would be recommended.

WATERLOO BRIDGE TRAFFIC. WATERLOO BRIDGE TRAFFIC.

REPLYING to a question put I y Sir W. Davison, Mr. G. Lloyd said it ,.va:7, not practicable to extend to taxicabs the present arrangements under which an occasional service e'' bre was allowed to cross the temporary Waterloo Bridge from south to north.

39 PROSPECTING LICENCES.

THE number of oil prospecting licences issued under the Petroleum (Production) Act, 1934, was stated to

be 39. •


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