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some £41h. a year would be possible from the expenditure of £35m. on the Midlands to South Wales trunk roads. This statement was made by Mr. C. T. Brunner, M.Inst.T., chairman of the publicity committee of the British Road Federation, at a luncheon held to mark the opening of a road exhibition in Birmingham, on Monday.
He pointed out that the Bristol Channel ports, including Bristol, Newport, Cardiff and Swansea, were working at half their pre-war capacity, and that they offered shorter sea routes to the dollar countries. The new roads would improve the usefUlness. of these ports and greatly reduce the transport costs of those concernS sending semi-finished products from the parent factory in the Midlands to branch works in South Wales_ . .
Abandonment of plans to build a sectionof by-pass road' to enable the runway at Filton to be constructed for the Brabazon was condemned by Aid. R. F. Lyne, Lord Mayor of Bristol. 'the road would have made it possible for road vehicles to reduce running times through the city by about half an hour.