Big P.S.V.s and Lorries May Not Park Without Lights: New Rules
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NEW provisions about parking without lights, which come into force in the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London on and after September 21, do not concern large passenger vehicles or heavier types of goads vehicle. Passenger vehicles adapted to carry not more than seven passengers (excluding the driver) and goods vehicles not exceeding 2 tons unladen are specified in the Regulations made by the Minister of Transport as being covered by the concessions.
There will be no relaxation in lighting requirements for any vehicle carrying an overhanging or projecting load on which an extra or substituted light is already required by law, or when a trailer is attached to a vehicle. The position under the rules was clarified on Tuesday.
Parking without lights will be allowed on any road which has a speed limit of 30 m.p.h. or less, except bus or trolleybus routes. No part of the parked vehicle should be more than 25 yd. from an illuminated street lamp or within 15 yd. of a road junction.
If any part of a road is an authorized car park or taxi rank, the above provisions will not apply. In such places, parking without tights will, as at present, be permitted provided that the police have consented to parking there without lights and that vehicles may lawfully be parked there.
Rules about the use of parking lamps are included in the Regulations—the Road Vehicles Lighting (Standing Vehicles) (Exemption) (London) Regulations, 1955, obtainable from H.M.
Stationery Office at 4d., or by post. A parking lamp must be fitted on the off side of a vehicle. The lamp must show white to the front and red to the rear, and each of its illuminated areas must not be less than 1 in. in diameter (or of equivalent area if not circular).
Parking Lights The lamp must not be more than 1 ft. from the off-side edge of the vehicle, and neither lower than 1 ft. 3 in. nor higher than 6 ft. from the ground. The red and white lights must be visible from 30 ft. away throughout an arc of 90 degrees.
Using a parking lamp, a vehicle may be parked on any road subject to a speed limit provided that no part of the vehicle is more than 100 yd. from a street lamp—whether lit or not—or within 15 yd, of a road junction.
This also applies to the parking of vehicles without parking lamps but which need show only the front white off-side lamp, instead of both front lights, and either a single red rear lamp or only the off-side light of a pair of rear lamps.
The Regulations do not affect the law about parking and obstruction. Rules affecting roads outside London are to be made later.
SEDDON PAYLOAD RATINGS
THE Seddon Mark 14. powered by a Gardner 5LW or 6LW oil engine has a payload of approximately 10 tons and the Mark 12F,8 tons. Respective gross vehicle weights are 14 tons and 12 tons.
List 13 Out on September 28
AS foreshadowed in The Coprimereial Motor last week, list 13, containing the balance of British Road Services vehicles still to be sold, will be published on September 28.
Announcing this on Tuesday, the British Transport Commission and the Road Haulage*Disposal Board said that the list would comprise about 800 vehicles, all of which would be offered in small vehicle-only units.
The last date for receipt of tenders will be November 2.
PART-TIME CREWS SUGGESTION REJECTED
ASUGGESTION that part-time crews should he employed on the city's buses has been rejected by employees of Sheffield Transport Department. The proposal was put forwarCt by the transport committee in an attempt to relieve the undertaking, which has some 500 vacancies.
An allegation that more than 1,000 Belfast busmen had left to seek better jobs with municipal transport undertakings in England was denied at a meeting of Belfast City Council, last week.
The chairman of the transport committee said that conditions in Belfast were as good, if not better, than in any part of Britain. There might be a few men who had left because they did not like Saturday work, but the department were able to get others to fill their places.