New International Traffic Rules Soon?
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E International Convention on Road Traffic, which was signed at Geneva in September, 1949, may be ratified by the Government early next year.
The Minister of Transport said last week that legal difficulties had been encountered in preparing the statutory instruments which would enable the Government to ratify the convention. But he hoped to submit the draft Order in Council for Parliamentary approval in time to permit the convention to he ratified before the 1957 touring season began.
[The 1949 Convention was intended to have world-wide effect, and to replace the international conventions on road and motor traffic of 1926, and the 1931 Convention on the Unification of Road Signals.1 COUNCIL CONSIDER ANALYSLS
AN analysis of vehicle building, covering sales, marketing, distribution and problerns of standardization, was before a meeting of the Motor Advisory Council presided over by the President of the Board of Trade last week. The Council represents manufacturers and trade unions. The analysis was prepared by the unions. Commercial-vehicle manufacturers were included in the inquiry.
FINANCE FOR FORTH PROJECT
PT'HE Government have offered to
I assume responsibility for financing the Forth road bridge by contributing £4450,000 to the capital cost of the project, and by making available loans repayable from the proceeds of tolls, The Forth Road Bridge Joint Board, it is proposed, should contribute £500,000 as their share of the capital outlay.
SEPTEMBER REGISTRATIONS
NEW registrations during September, excluding cars and motorcycles. totalled 13,167. The greatest single increase over the previous month's figures was under "other goods" at 9,445 (8,981).
For the first nine months of the year new registrations totalled 162,120. Further details are given in the table below.
Hastings Plan Opposed
THIRTEEN more organizations in
• 1 Hastings have joined the three main political parties and the ratepayers' association in the fight against the proposal of Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., to wind up the Hastings Tramways Co. and replace their trolleybuses by motorbuses.
Two electric-traction experts, who addressed a protest meeting last week, estimated that the change-over to motor buses would cost £750,000. •
Aid. F. Dawson:: chairman, said M. and D.'s proposed Parliamentary Bill involved not only the abolition of the trolleybuses but the loss to the corporation of the quinquennial option to purchase. and the creation of a complete commercial monopoly. The announcement of the company's intention came as a great shock to the people of Hastings.
He appealed to everyone to join in the campaign to oppose the Bill.