30. Mr. Vaneasked the Minister of transport on how many occasions during 1947, authority was given under S.R. & O., 1941, No. 987, for special vehicles carrying abnormal indivisible loads to cross the county of Westmorland by road A6, both in a northward and southward direction; and how these figures compare approximately with similar traffic in 1938.
§ Mr. BarnesThe Order gives general authority for passage of these loads. In certain circumstances, prior notification to the police and highway authority is required. In the period January-June, 1947, 105 such notifications were given, and in the comparable period of 1938, 69.