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3rd March 1933, Page 59
3rd March 1933
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IN PARLIAMENT

B.R.F. States Its Case. A. MIETING of material importance was held last Tuesday night. The Conservative Members Parliamentary Transport Committee met in order to receive, through Mr. Frank Pick, the reply of the British Road Federation to the report of the Rail and Road Conference. Sir Henry Jackson presided. The details of Mr. Pick's case are fully dealt with elsewhere in this issue.

Road Transport and Agriculture.

TIIE prospect of legislation based on the Salter Report is a matter of .rumediate interest to many agriculturists and at a meeting of the Unionist Parliamentary Agricultural Committee the other day a discussion on the subject was initiated by Wing-Commander James. He pointed out that the produce that was affected by the Salter recommendations included sugar beet, potatoes, milk, milling products, fruit, fertilizers and feeding stuffs and livestock, upon the carriage of which large expenditure was involved. The committee agreed to refer the subject to a sub-committee for further consideration.

Taximeter Cab Flags.

THE attention of the Home Secretary was called to taximeter hiring flags that were not illuminated and could not be distinguished after dark.

Railway Electrification.

-urn. H. WILLIAMS, for Sir Philip ,LVI.Dawson, desired to know whether the Minister of Transport had, since the third reading of the London Passenger Transport Bill, received any definite undertaking from the L.N.E.R. and L.M.S. companies that they would proceed with the electrification of suburban linos around London. CoL Headlam said that both these railways had informed the Minister that certain 'schemes of London suburban electrification were in an advanced stage of technical preparation and, in the event of the London Passenger Transport Bill becoming law, would be ready for immediate submission to the Standing Joint Committee of the Transport Board and the Railway Companies, which the Bill proposed to set up. Both the railways had made it clear that in the absence of the contemplated co-ordination of London passenger transport and of the cessation of wasteful competition they would not be in a position to embark on heavy new expense for such purposes.

Road Service Licences.

"lk TR. HALES asked the Minister of IVITransport if he was aware that under Section 81 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, no right of appeal was given to a local authority objecting to variation of the conditions attaching to a road service licence unless the local authority had originally objected to the grant of the licence, and, in view of a case that had arisen in Stoke-on-Trent,

whether he would take steps to introduce amending legislation. Mr. Pybus said that where substantial variation of a road service licence was sought, the practice of the Traffic Commissioners was to require it to be submitted in the form of a new application. The inquiry into Stoke-on-Trent Corporation's appeal was to be held at an early date and they had just been informed that the corporation was now pressing the postponement as it was not ready with its case.

Breach of Hours Regulations.

-TurR. PARKINSON was informed by ..L.V1Mr. Pybus that no figures showing the number of prosecutions for breaches of the hours regulations in the cases of drivers of commercial lorries were available for the country as a whole, but in the Metropolitan Police District action had been taken in five cases, three of which concerned public-service vehicles. Convictions were obtained against the principals in all five cases. Proceedings were pending in one further case. Mr. T. Williams asked whether the observations of various magistrates had found their way into his department and, if so, what effect were those observations likely to have upon the Minister. -Mr. Maxton also wanted to know why the figures were not available for the whole country. Mr. Williams was asked to give notice of his question, and Mr. Maxton was told that his question should be addressed to another department. Road Grants.

IT is officially stated that during 1931-32 the under-mentioned county councils received special grants of 75 per cent. in respect of certain selected works of maintenance on classified roads :—England and Wales: Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Radnor. Scotland : Aberdeen, Argyll, Angus, Ayr, Banff, Berwick, Dumfries, Inverness, Kincardine, Kirkcudbright, Moray, Orkney, Peebles, Perth and Kinross, Ross and Cron-tarty, Roxburgh, Selkirk, Stirling, Wigtown.

Cyclists' Rear Lights.

WHEN asked to state the ,number of accidents to cyclists travelling by night wjthout rear lights during the past year, the Home Secretary stated that five cases of accidents to pedal cyclists who had neither rear lights nor reflectors were reported to the police in the Metropolitan Police District during the nine months January to September,

1932. One of these accidents was fatal. Mr. Pybus stated, in reply to Corn. Marsden, who suggested that action should be taken to carry out the jury's recommendation in a recent inquest that the carrying of rear lights by cyclists should be made compulsory, that if, as a result of the investigations the department was now making into fatal accidents, it was established that the use of a rear lamp would reduce the number of deaths on the roads they would put that into operation.

Lords and L.P.T. Bill.

NOTIGE of intention to move the rejection of the London Passenger Transport Bill on its second reading in the Lords was given last week by Lord Mount Temple and Lord Banbury.


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