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Co-ordinating Scottish Transport
T HE establishment of an Economic Planning Council, a Planning Board for Scotland, and the Highlands and Islands Development Board established new machinery for looking at all......
No New Powers To Ban Artics
IN the Commons last week Mr. Michael .1 T. Jopling (Tory, Westmorland) suggested that the police should be given power to prohibit the use by all vehicles, or selected types, of......
Danger Of Ice-cream Vans
AR. FRASER told MPs last week that IVI he was examining possible means, legislative or other, of tackling the problem of accidents associated with the sale of ice-cream from......
No Edinburgh Survey
IT had not been possible to arrange I the traffic survey in the Edinburgh area announced a year ago. Stating this in the Lords last week, Lord Mitchison, Joint Parliamentary......
Fuel Tax Review
THE Chancellor of the Exchequer would consicler "the incidence of the duty on hydrocarbon oils" in his general review of taxation before the Budget. This was as far as Mr. John......
Rural Bus Study
A N informal working party composed of representatives of the Ministry of Transport, local authorities and operator .associations is to examine the general problem of rural......
No Toll Concessions
A T its last meeting the Forth Road Bridge Joint Board decided not to make any concessionary arrangements or agreements for the composition of tolls, reported Mr. William Ross,......
Mr. S. I. B. Skyrme, At Present General Manager Of
Southdown Motor Services Ltd., has been appointed to the executive staff of The British Electric Traction Co. Ltd., effective from May 1, 1966, with a view to his appointment to......
Mr. Basil Day And Mr. K. W. Tandiager Have Been
appointed to the board of Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Crane Fruehauf Trailers (North Walsham) Ltd. Mr. Day, who is 35, is general manager of......
Mr. A. 0. Knight, Assistant To The Chairman Of London
Transport, has been appointed principal planning assistant. Mr. Knight, who is 41 and joined LT in 1940, will act as deputy to Mr. E R. Ellen, the planning officer, and will be......