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Survival

10th November 1961
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—by Dr. Beeching

" WIE mean to survive by getting more VI' and more of that business which we can handle best" declared the new railway chief, Dr. Richard Beeching, in his present capacity as chairman of the British Transport Commission. The occasion was the anniversary luncheon of the Institute of Transport held in London on Tuesday. The transport industry . had never moved very far away from the condition of excess capacity and blind competition, claimed Dr. Beeching. An explanation of this failure to develop the industry in an orderly Manner, he ,fuggested, was the failure to collect the knowledge without which sensible co-ordination was impossible. If each form of transport were to be developed so as to have sufficient but not excess capacity to handle those traffics which it was best suited to handle it waS first necessary to know, in terms of quality of service and costs, the particular advantages of the several forms of transport. Additionally, it was necessary to learn of the national pattern of transport requirements in terms of the characteristics which determine relative suitability of traffics. British Railways were determined to equip themselves with such ,knowledge so as to lay the foundation for more sensible and effective competition.


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