PUBLIC CAN BE MISLED ABOUT LORRIES
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REFERRING to the Beeching Plan, the Buchanan Report and the Geddes Committee, Mr. G. F. Page, chairman of the London and Home Counties division of the Traders Road Transport Association, told members of the Sussex area at their annual lunch and general meeting last week that these were genuine and demonstrable , attempts to bring road transport into the second half of this century and beyond.
Expressing the hope that the Government would support Professor Buchanan's proposals to the full so that progress could be properly effected, Mr. Page also deplored how, in contradiction to these splendid attempts to promote greater order and efficiency on Britain's roads, a small minority of operators had not helped the case for commercial road transport by their flagrant abuse of trade regulations that were designed to protect the convenience and safety of the public.
Mr. Page emphasized how the misadventures of even the smallest caucus of offenders could mislead the general public into believing that all lorries on the roads were potential killers when, in fact, the majority of them were not only a credit to the industries they served, but vitally important to the national economy.
B.R.S. Negotiating for New Glasgow Branch : The possibility of building a large, new branch of B.R.S. (Parcels) Ltd. at Dixon's Blazes, or. Glasgow, is being discussed in talks between B.R.S. and the owners.