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IF the motorways are to be designated according to the I order in which they were built, there will be some inconsistency with the familiar system applied to other roads. For example, as the Ml approximates to the route of the A5, it would be more appropriately called the M5. Similarly, the proposed Kent motorway could be termed the M2, as it will be an alternative route to the A2.
Drivers have become accustomed to the geographical significance of the figures used in the system for naming other roads. If the motorways are labelled purely arbitrarily
according to their order of completion, no useful purpose will -be served. The " 1 " in MI means that this road was the first major motorway to be finished: of what value will this fact be after a while?
The time to adopt such a system as 1. suggest is now, before any more motorways are opened, although I realize that many signs already put up will have to be changed. The cost should, however, be small in relation to the money already spent and worth while in the long run.
London, E.C.1. PAUL KNIGHT.
No Quarrel With Farmers
IN answer to Mr. J. W. Perry-Warnes (The Commercial A Motor, January 8), hauliers have no quarrel whatever with farmers who operate strictly within the terms of their so-called " F " licences, nor do they wish to deprive them of the special concession of a low rate of tax for their vehicles. They do not seriously quarrel with farmers who have C-licence vehicles and use them legally for the carriage
of goods for others engaged in agriculture in their own locality.
What they do quarrel with is a law that grants special privileges to one section of the community at the expense of another section, and allows it to enter the haulage field in a big way, without the approval of Licensing Authorities who were charged with the task of trying to equate facilities with traffic and so limit uneconomic competition. How can they possibly do this when every farmer, small-holder and market gardener is a potential haulage contractor?
Throughout my long connection with road transport, first as a haulage contractor, and for the past 22 years as an area secretary of the Road Haulage Association, I have always believed in the right of anyone to carry his own goods in his own vehicles without restriction. It is for the professional hauliers or the railways to make their own services so attractive, if they can, that transport users will feel that it is more advantageous to employ their servicesthan to operate their own transport.
Cambridge. . G. W. Iawnq.
Mobil Claim to be First
sHOULD like to challenge the accuracy of a statement I in " Operators' Choice" in The Commercial Motor on January 1. Thirty-one 2,000-gal. four-compartment allproduct tankers being delivered to the National Benzole Co., Ltd., are not the first of their size to be based on B.M.C. 7-ton chassis. My company have had eight such vehicles in operation since last August, and we were the first to operate this type of tanker based on the B.M.C. 7-ton chassis. The picture accompanying this letter was taken last October.
London, S.W.1. ALEC MOSLEY,
Public Relations Officer, Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.
[The information published was supplied by the National Benzoic Co., Ltd.--En.]