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T.U.C. Demand Money for Roads
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THE Government should spend on the roads the money that the transport industry pays in taxation. I do not mean all the taxation, because we think the tax on fuels should go, but they should take the money paid in vehicle taxation. This 'would ease the problem considerably and reduce the number of casualties."
This was stated by Mr. Frank Coyle, of the Transport and General Workers' Union, at the conference of the Trades Union Congress at Brighton, last week. He was supporting a resolution noting the inadequacy of the road system and the number of deaths caused by its deficiencies.
Mr. Coyle said that automation in industry would be useless without efficient transport. At the present time, lorry and bus drivers were undergoing "intense strain" during their working hours because of bad road conditions. With a freer flow of traffic, there would also be much less atmospheric pollution in large towns.
Mr. G. Green, general secretary of thc Civil Service Clerical Association, sponsored the resolution and stated that the 'high Cost" of moving goods by road added to the cost of living. 11 that expense could be reduced to any great extent, it would he of assistance in reducing living costs.
The resolution was passed unanimously BRISTOL INDUSTRIES' £140,000 • OUTLAY
1-1 A SUM of £140,000 had been spent in the year ended March 31 by Bristol Industries, Ltd., to improve efficiency, Mr. A. F. Wills, chairman,
states in his annual report. Of this amount, i74,000 was for modern refrigeration, warehousing and engineering equipment and new vehicles.
The balance of .06,000 had been spent on the erection of new buildings in Bristol, Taunton and Wellington. Somerset, and the acquisition of l+ acres in Feeder Road, Bristol, adjacent to the company's existing premises, Plans were in hand for developing the property for road transport. WaFeheiii2` ing and other purposes.
E.T.A.. MEETINGS
L'ORTHCOMING meetings of the I London division. of the Industrial Transport Association include the fol
lowing: •
icteesiner 11. Lecturte by C. Courtney Cramp on transport economies, Januar,. 15, 1957, Talk by J. 1...'asion on tubeless tyres and film. Febraguy .19, Lecture by F. 4_ Paine on packaging research.
March 19, annual general meeting, Caxton Hall. London, S.W.I. Discussion initiated by. R. J. Holcombe.
April 9. Lecture by S. 1. Lamborn on arcs
distribution.
All meetings except the annual general meeting will be held at the Royal Society of Arts, John Adam Street, London, W.C.2, at 6.30 p.m.