DELIVERY SURVEY IN LONDON NEXT WEEK
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FROM Monday next, occupiers of business property in Central London affected by proposed restrictions on the loading or unloading of goods vehicles outside their, premises Win be asked to note for five days as from that date details of all deliveries to their shops, workrooms or offices.
Mr. R. E. G. Brown, secretary of the London and Home Counties Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association, who is in charge of the investigation on behalf of the Metropolitan Traffic Liaison Committee of the T.R.T.A., Road Haulage Association and Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association, has had a form distributed to occupiers.
Part I asks for details cif deliveries made from the premises, the number. of vans used, the usual times of loading or unloading and other relevant information. Part II provides for a daily record to be maintained next week showing the times of deliveries and the companies concerned, before 11.30 a.m. and after 11.30 a.rm Next Thursday, a special meeting has been called by the liaison committee of representatives of all the organizations which supported the committee's recent memorandum to the Minister of Transport "to consider what further action should be taken regarding opposition to the proposals for banning loading and unloading." More than 20 trade and other bodies, such as the Westminster and London Chambers of Commerce, endorsed the terms of the memorandum.