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One Motor Equal to STRIKING testimony to the Eight Horses and l'Jgreatly increased working Carts capacity of the commercial motor, compared with the horse, is contained in the application of Mr. E. Cottam, a Co. Durham operator, to the Northern Licensing Authority, for permission to replace eight horses and carts by one 4-ton motor vehicle.
SPEAKING this week at the %-'annual banquet of the Allied Brewery Traders Association, Mr. Winston Churchill said he was informed that there were at least 70 of these allied trades. Road transport, we understand, is included, but, being itself an industry of first magnitude, with countless allied trades of its own, it can hardly be regarded as subsidiary to any. Rather, it is an independent organization upon which practically every trade is dependent. In conversation with a Past President of this Association, who was, at the time, B4
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quite unaware of the interests we represent, we asked what form of transport he used in his business and why. Almost without exception the road, came the reply, because of the breakages and delays that seemed inseparable from transport by rail. We gathered that his views on this matter are fairly representative.
Between the Devil IF One does not stop for a and the Deep Blue 'pedestrian crossing one
Sea commits an offence. If one does (giving due warning to oncoming traffic), the pedestrian is encouraged to cross, and possibly to step in front of an overtaking vehicle out of his sight, the driver of which has ignored the outstretched hand. It occurs to us that there may be certain pedestrian crossings the institution of which has resulted in an increase of accidents in their localities, but we have not yet seen a -crossing, once marked out, subsequently removed, except, possibly, a few yards.
Aberdeen Decides to A 11P.R DEE N Town Council Buy Nottingham's Old r-khas decided to purchase 19
Trams second-hand trams at .£195 each. The vehicles originally belonged to Nottingham Corporation, which is abandoning its system in favour of trolleybuses and motorbuses. Surely this move constitutes a slight on the progressive policy of the Granite City?
The New Status: of THE elevation, to Cabinet the Minister of Transrank, of Mr. Hore-Belisha as Minister of Transport, is hailed in Westminster by all members interested in road transport and development as a matter for great satisfaction. It restores the Ministry to the authority it held when Mr. Herbert Morrison was a Cabinet Minister in the last Labour Administration, but it has a greater significance than that. It brings into prominence the question of the port . . . . , . . State acquisition of 4,500 miles of arterial roads as a matter of high policy, and the Minister will in future draw the attention of the Cabinet to the numerous road problems that are raised by M.P.s and various orgartizations.
A Method of ExT HE managing director of pressing Thanks for 1 Alexander Duckham and
Courtesy Co., Ltd., Mr. Alexander Duck ham, has evolved a simple method of expressing recognition of help afforded him when overtaking traffic. He has often expressed appreciation of this courtesy, more especially, by lorry drivers, and he has now had the word "Thanks" painted in black on the back blind of his car. The word is visible when the blind is pulled down to a 6-in, stop by lowering the blind to 12 ins, it becomes operative without the "Thanks." The fitment was added by James Young and Co., the well-known coachbuilding concern of Bromley.