DEFENDANT ADMONISHED IN TEST CASE.
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Judgment was given in a test case by Sheriff Malcolm, at Dundee, last Friday, when Murray Lornie Thomas, motof agent and haulage contractor, New Alyth Road, Alyth, was charged with having used, a lorry for the conveyante of road meta/ for hire or reward, other than under the terms of the trade .licence.
Sheriff Malcolm said it was suspicious that the occasion on which the lorry was taken for a road test coincided with the necessity of sending a vehicle -to replace one that had broken down.
He was quite satisfied that the main purpose for which the lorry in question was being used was to carry road metal in implement of the contract, and that, if a road test entered into the matter at all, it was subsidiary to the main purpose.
It was provided in the regulation's that, only so long as a vehicle under a general trade licence was being used bona-fide for any purpose connected with the business of the holder of the licence, as manufacturer or repairer of, or dealer in, mechanically propelled vehicles, some other, or further, use was not a breach of the regulations. He was, satisfied that . on the dates mentioned this lorry, was Inot being used for such purposes.
The complaint was dismissed with an admonition.
Photo-electric Traffic Control for Complicated Crossing.
One of the most complicated traffic intersections in the -north of England is that at-Queen's Drive and Muirhead Avenue, Liverpool, where there are double main roads, which are joined by two minor roads.
For the control of traffic an Electromatic signal has been installed. Beams of light directed across -the road on to photo-electric cells are used to detect the presence of vehicles. The advantages of this method are extremely appropriate to this intersection, for at the present stage of development it is considered that light-ray detection is suitable for use only where the roads carry one-way traffic, or where islands are placed in the roadway, to separate the traffic in one-way streams.
Light-ray detectors shine across the carriageway used by approaching vehicles at two points on Queen's Drive and' two points on Muirhead Avenue, in advance of the intersection, and across each roadway of Queen's Drive from the island in the centre. These two latter detectors are necessary because the double roads which form Muirhead Avenue are 'situated at some distance from each other. Consequently, traffic along Queen's Drive, after crossing one roadway, requires detecting yet again before it can safely be allowed to cross the other roadway.
Except for a trial installation, which has been operating in the south of England, Liverpool's equipment is the first of its kind,