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9th February 1980
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Keywords : Truck, Lorry, Lemon

\M SURE the Lorries and the ivironment Committee is corct when it says that the ,erage member of the public is rt really concerned with lorry sights. Antagonism is directed ainly to the size and noise of iavy vehicles and the intrusion id fear that these factors use. Height is, I think, much )re disturbing than length.

A 15-metre TIR outfit driven 40mph or more about 2ft im the kerb in Falloden Way, impstead Garden Suburb, nost sucks pedestrians into road. Such vehicles roar in )cession day and night along s stretch of Al.

It is no wonder that local 3idents complain bitterly out heavy lorries. But their 3-test would be no louder if hides weighed 40 tonnes inad of 32 tons gross and were out 51ft instead of 49ft 21/2in 1g, because they would not ow the difference.

Indeed, I suspect that they ruld object less to a 51ft platm lorry with a relatively low, nded cab than to a an gressive 40ft van the height a double-deck bus and with a lb-fronted bully-boy cab rched about 6ft above the )und. unlikely to solve the world's energy problems. In a splendid tongue-in-cheek report by Alan Hamilton, The Times quotes a Chloride spokesman as estimating that Israel's entire citrus crop would be required to power three small electric vehicles, which would, of course, be unable to carry it.

The 43,233 tonnes of lemons that Britain imported last year at a cost of £10.5 million would have provided enough current for 40 light bulbs. No calculation is available for the electrical output from frogs' legs and vinegar.

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