More Bill Changes In The Lords

from our Parliamentary correspondent • The House of Lords this week approved by 105 votes to 54 an Opposition amendment which says that local authorities can run contract......

A. C. Bull Has Been Appointed Hands Trailers Ltd. Chief

projects engineer—a new position created to deal with the increasing design requirements of forthcoming Government legislation for road transport. Mr. Bull, formerly a Hands......

Problems Of Huddersfield Testing Station

• MPs have been told about the problems of setting up a heavy goods vehicle testing station at Huddersfield in the West Riding. Mr. Marsh said that the initial plan for the West......

No-tax Sweden/ Turkey Agreement

• The Lords last week approved an Order giving effect to agreements with Sweden and Turkey providing for a bilateral waiver of taxation on goods vehicles registered in one......

Increase Not For Pib

• Mr. R. Marsh does not think that a reference to the Prices and Incomes Board will be called for in the case of the fare increases by the Eastern National Omnibus Co. Ltd.......

Transport Survey Summary Due Late Summer

• Late summer will probably see the publication of a summarized version of the Survey of Transport from manufacturing establishments commissioned by the Ministry of Transport.......

• ▪ Ministry Changes •

• Changes among the Under Secretary • appointments at the Ministry of Transport, • • taking effect from August 1, include the • following: E. S. Ainley, in charge of the •......

Bill Saves Bureaucracy Says Mr. Marsh

• Mr. Richard Marsh has considered various alternatives to the quantity licensing system in the Transport Bill, but—he told MPs—none of them was likely to be as effective as the......