Kerb Space is Precious "Minister to Open Campaign A CAMPAIGN
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with the slogan "Kerb Space is —I Precious is to be launched by the Traders' Road 7ransport Association with the object of cutting down be waiting time of goods vehicles in busy thoroughfares. dr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, will naugurate the campaign at a luncheon in London next nonth.
Mr. Watkinson will also write the foreword to a pecial leaflet being prepared by the Assoeiation, which vill contain suggestions for reducing time spent at the erb. This will be distributed to retailers and their uppliers, and all other people connected
vith the collection and delivery of goods ri streets where traffic is heavy.
In the initial stages about 250,000 opies of this leaflet will be distributed. or the time being, the campaign will be onfined to the London Traffic Area— lie City, London County Council's area, nd parts of the Home Counties. A large lumber of organizations has promised uil support for the scheme.
ATLAS FIRST OF A SERIES THE new Standard Atlas 10-12-cwt. .1 van was the first of a series of nodels specifically designed and built as ommercial vehicles, said Mr. Alick S. )ick, managing director of the Standard dotor Co., Ltd., on Monday. He was tescrihing to the Press how the cornrany's position had been strengthened ■ 37 the acquisition of various interests.
By the end of next year, he said, 60 per :ent. of vehicles assembled at the Indian dant would be manufactured there. Outnit in Australia had been doubled.
Although, at home, a seasonal decline n sales might be approaching, he was tire that next spring would bring noblems of supply rather than of lernand. The full impact of cheaper and !asier credit would then begin to be felt. Prices for the new Atlas 10-I2-cwt. nodels, described on pages 238-239, have aeen fixed by the. Standard Motor Co., _td., as follows: van in primer with tinged doors, £551 Its. lid, including 76 us. Ild, purchase tax; pick-up with singed .doors in primer, £541 Hs. lid. same tax). -Extras: sliding doors for van, 12; side-loading, door, f 12 10s.; heater,
:13; paint finish, 1; passenger's seat, :4 10s.; heavy-duty tyres, £5 12s. 6d., ncluding £1 2s. 6d. tax.
TERROR TRIPS TO BE ENDED OACH trips to the "terror spots of Nottingham" may be scotched by ottingham police. Cllr. F. W. Wooton, eriff of Nottingham, referred on onday to coach proprietors in other owns who had been advertising trips to arts of the city where racial disturbances ad taken place, and said that when they ad been identified he would ask the hief Constable to intervene.