Road Traffic Bill : "L ittle Hope ',
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From our Parliamentary Correspondent
DROTESTS at the likelihood that the
. Road Traffic Billwill not become law during this Parliamentary session were made when the Lords 'took their final look at the measure last week. eLord Silkin wondered if the same Bill could not be carried forward into another session in exactly the same form as it left the Lords.
"If we are to have another Bill intro• duced, and have to go through all its stages once more, as we "have done with this one, I can see little likelihood of its going through even in another session, unless it is introduced at the earliest possible date," he warned.
But Government spokesmen—being careful not to admit that the Bill would be -dropped—gave Lord Silkin little hope that his suggestion would be followed.
If the Commons did not deal with the Bill, the Government would be able to study further the criticisms already made, and introduce a new Bill based on that Study, said Lord Chesham, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
. Rhodesian Jeep Plant Projected
IT is reported by Barclays Bank, D.C.0.. Ithat discussions have been held regarding the possibility of the Willys organization setting up an assembly plant in Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. No decision ' has. been announced yet. Jeep models would be made there.. A representative of the Ministry of Transport and Works has said that the Northern Rhodesian Government would be prepared to buy from the plant some 75 per cent, of its " requirements in the particular field covered.
MULTI-FUEL LORRIES FOR U.S. . . ARMY
ACONTRACT worth almost £8m. has ,been placed by the US. Army with the . Studebaker-Packard Corporation, Soulh Bend, Indiana, for 3,995 2k-ton lorries. These will be the first vehicles to be powered by the American Army's new multi-fuel engine.
QUINTON HAZELL AND REMAX NEGOTIATIONS QUINTON HAZELL, LTD., have now concluded negotiations to buy half' the capital of Remax, Lid., a subsidiary of Simms . Motor " and Electronics Corporation,Ltd. Simms. arc. taking for cash 336,352 Quinton I4azell shares at 5s: a share.
–.-EGYPT TO MAKE T.A.M. BUSES UNDER a new YugdslaV-Egyptian agreement buses Will be -Produced in the El Nasr factory at Cairo with tedMeal assistance from the T.A.M, motor factory, Maribcir. T.A.M. will also supply all equipment needed for manufacture of the buses