"Watch for New Traffic Bans"
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MEMBERS are again urged to keep a close watch for any announcements of proposed new traffic restric-• lions in their locality, and to report them to the Traders' Road Transport Association without delay,"
This further warning about official encroachments upon the rights of vehicle owners has been issued by the T.R.T.A.
In the absence of long-overdue offthe-street parking facilities, and alternativeroutes .(either by using existing roads or the construction of by-passes) for through .trallie,.the authorities tend . to turn more and more to restrictions on. stopping to load and unload goods," states theAssociation.
This tendency must be checked. Otherwise. the collection and distribution of. goods will be most seriously impeded and dislocated. to the general cle:triment."
NEW GARAGE AND BUS STATION PLANS
PROPOSAL.S for a new garage and workshop for the transport.departmerit have been 'approved in principle by Chesterfield Transport Committee. Plans :for bus stations are being considered at .Loughborough, Stoke-onTrent and •Lichfield. Loughborough COrPoration: have discussed wlli bus companies --who-ilia.. services in the -town proposals to erect a bus station '
and carpark. .
Sites for a proposed bus station..._at' Hanley have been inspected by Stoke reconstruction committee. Lichfield City Council, whose existing station can accommodate only 12 buses, are contemplating doubling its capacity.
24-CU.-YD. TIPPER FOR COLLIERY WORK HAULED by a Leyland Hippo, a 24-cu.-yd. side-tipping semi-trailer has been delivered to Kriel Collieries, Ltd., Transvaar, South Africa. The outfit was built by More-Wear Industries (Pty.), Ltd., and has Klaus air-operated tipping gear and More-Wear telescopic landing gear. The capacity is over 30 tons.
A special feature is a safety device to counteract any loss of pressure in the tyres of the semi-trailer in case of punctures. Should a puncture occur. a light flickers in the driver's cab and the twin to the punctured tyre discharges 15 per cent, of its pressure into the other.
FREE TRAVEL WANTED
FREE travel, as allowed old people in Burnley, Come and Nelson, has been requested of the Burnley, Colne and Nelson joint Passenger Transport Committee by Barrowford Old People's Association. The Association say that the concessions will cost little and not interfere with the ordinary working of the undertak Mg.