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X Change Is 'last Hope' R Construction Vehicles
reduction in excise duty for certain cies with special bodies, proposed in the , might prove to be the last hope for construction vehicles, said a Tory MP last would apply......
Ching Would Have 'butchered' Railways
the policy drawn up by Lord teching had been pursued, the railwould have been "butchered". This was y Mr. John Morris, joint Parliamentary :ary to the Ministry of Transport, at......
Rejected
Lords last week refused to alter the ies of Transport Users' Consultative Corn s by allowing them to examine the financial of proposed rail closures. 38 votes to 11 they......
Piggy-backing?
. JOHN MORRIS this week turned down a suggestion that the Minister of Transport I tell British Railways to consider the costs tdvisability of making provision for the vement of......
No Diesel Danger
A BRIEF summary of the research being carried out into the effects of diesel exhaust fumes will be given later this year in the 1965 report of the Ministry of Health's chief......
Marker Lights
THE Minister of Transport's working party 'reviewing lighting regulations is obtaining further information about experience abroad where lights are required on the top of large......
'penalize Thieves'
TEGISLATION to provide higher penalties for thefts from lorries was called for this week by Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas (Tory, Chelmsford). He was told by Mr. Dick Taverne,......
Watch That Width !
THE Minister of Transport will not introduce 'regulations forcing large vehicles, or those with abnormal loads, to display the clearance they need. "She does not consider that......
No Noise Regs This Year
NOISE regulations arc not likely to be intro' duced this year. The matter was being considered by the Minister of Transport's working party on Construction and Use Regulations......
Advice On Lights
THE next edition of the Highway Code will say that the flashing of headlamps should, in the interests of road safety, be regarded as having only the same meaning as sounding the......