Good Morning, Mr. Marples
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GOOD morning, Mr. Marples. Have you got any thoughts . on box dimensions for public service vehicles, on simpler records for drivers of small C-licensed vans, on 28-ton-gross eight-wheeled tankers, or on restrictions for abnormal loads? I know your lively brain has lots of thoughts on a pretty indigestible range of .subjects, but these four questions are ones that have been kicked around for some time now. And they are, as you know, important subjects to operators and manufacturers.
Nobody seems to have raised violent objections to your proposals for larger P.S.V.s, and some people stand to benefit. so why any delay on that score?
Simpler Records
A ND how about those simplified records for drivers of small C-licensed vans? The British Road Federation will soon have forgotten when it first put a very sensible plan for this before you. It teally is a very long time ago. What is holding that one up?
28-ton Tankers THE fuss over 28-ton gross eight-wheeled tankers is of much longer standing. Mr. Harold Watkinson (how long ago it seems since he was Minister of Transport) was favourably disposed towards them. Unaccountably, you suddenly switched the other way round and announced you would have nothing
88 to do with them. You gave as a reason what many operators uncharitably took to be a rail-inspired effort. Many bridges, you said, were not strong enough to take the extra four tons.
Since then, you have been thinking about it again. I wonder what influence a certain survey (non-Ministry) into weight limits on those bridges had on you? Again, there seems no strong, valid reason for refusing to amend the regulations to allow this—so why such a delay?
rusual Paperweight
VONDER if anyone else has such an unusual paperweight the one which is on the desk of Mr. Clarence Mumford, rman of W. Mumford, Ltd., Plymouth. The object is a s hnb-cap, which was found by a workman whilst a firm
■ ipe-laying contractors was at work in Plymouth.
he hub-cap bears the inscription' "W. Mumford, Ebrington Plymouth," and dates back to the turn of the last century, n Mr. William Mumford founded the business. It is thought lave fallen from a two-wheeled trap and become buried in roadside.
titing Cry
ZY from the heart of Mr. Victor J. Pike, when he addressed nernbers of Coventry Rotary Club on the need for better ling facilities in factories which had been enlarged and in Ai the transport work had increased.
On average," he said, "it takes six hours to load up a big y when it could and should be done in a fraction of that There is far too much waiting at factories around ear, hear!
tt OUt
EN on the Portsmouth Road last week. One stake-sided ory piled sky-high with old outer covers. It was parked the roadside in a clearway stretch. The reason?
puncture!