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'Chaos' over test stations delay
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THE Minister of Transport's announcement that only 50 testing stations out of a total of 70 will be in operation when annual testing of vehicles comes into effect on July 1,1968, is causing concern to operators in Scotland.
At a TRTA meeting in Glasgow last week Mr. S. F. Gregory said that although the location of the stations behind schedule had not been revealed, there was a strong indication that Scotland would fare badly One could not rule out the prospect of chaos resulting from congestion if stations were ultimately asked to condense three months' work into one, he said.
On a fairly accurate costing basis a large operator had calculated that the annual test would cost £45 a vehicle—and this was based on a round trip of only 20 miles.
because of the difficulty of obtaining suitably competent traffic staffs.
Mr. A. F. Menzies, distribution manager, tea division, J. Lyons and Co. Ltd., described the transport operations conducted from Lyons' large Greenford depot. Their experiment with computer-controlled transport operations had convinced them that manual operations were more efficient. He described the use made by traffic operators of largescale ordnance maps, Perspex-covered, which had been found to be invaluable in efficient route planning.