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Eire to Ration : 10% Cut in Hauliers' Fuel

7th December 1956
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A RATIONING system for vehicle

fuels and other petroleum products is to be introduced in Eire from January 1, with the object of reducing overall consumption by 10 per cent. As in Britain, the ration for hauliers will be 90 per cent. of the October consumption.

Mr. Laurence F. Lynch, general secretary of the Licensed Road Transport Association, said that he welcomed the fact that the Minister for Industry and Commerce had recognized the essential role of licensed private-enterprise carriers by allocating to their vehicles approximately five times as much petrol as was allowed to other commercial goods vehicles.

Mr. Lynch observed that the statement by the Minister made no reference to the allocation of petrol and oil fuel to Coras lompair Eireann, the Great Northern Railway and the three other authorized transport companies.

I IGHW AY ENGINEERING SCHOOL

rIA NATIONAL school of highway engineering similar to those in Continental countries is planned by Birmingham University. Later this month representatives of the University will meet, in London, those of research establishments, professional institutions, industry. the British Road Federation and the motoring organizations, to launch ,the scheme and form an advisory body.

Students would be taught the three major subjects of highway engineering —materials and construction, traffic engineering, and the economics of roads.

ROAD WORKS MAY BE SPEEDED

TMinister of Transport last week promised to accelerate road works during the next few months while traffic is light. He told Mr. B. Janner (Lab., Leicester, North-west) in the House of Commons that he hoped to authorize over 200 trunk-road schemes, each costing over £10,000, between now and April, 1959.

Driving of the Dartford-Purfleet tunnel will begin in three or four months, and the project should be completed by 1962.

The Minister listed a number of schemes authorized or shortly to be authorized. Schemes approved in principle were the Birmingham ring road and the Talgarth Road section of the Cromwell Road extension. London. Road works at the Elephant and Castle. London, would start in 1957 and might be completed in 1960.

NEW LIGHTING RULES?

THE Ministry of Transport is to circu

late a draft regulation which would require new vehicles of all types to have rear lights which comply with the British Standard Institution's specifica tion for rear lamps. ,


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