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TOTAL opposition to Mrs. Castle's quantitative licensing proposals for goods vehicles was decided upon by the National Council of the Traders Road Transport Association at a special meeting on Wednesday.
And at a meeting in London with MoT officials a Road Haulage Association delegation headed by a national vice-chairman, Mr. Noel Wynn, fired more objections to the proposals and fixed yet another meeting—for August 16.
At the same time the powerful Aims of Industry published a document — White Elephant and (Barbara)Castle—describingas"sinister" Mrs. Castle's plan to give the railways "the virtual right of vetoing applications for licences for heavy vehicles on hauls of over 100 miles".
It said: "If this is not an instrument for featherbedding the railways by forcing bulk traffic off the roads, the Minister should explain just how she thinks it will benefit either the national economy or the productivity of British industry for which transport has become virtually an integral part of the production line."