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Only. Polities Justify Area Scheme

30th September 1949
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THAT an area road passenger transport board in the West Midlands could not be justified except as a political manoeuvre was an opinion expressed by Mr. D. E. Skelding, M.B.E., Minst.T., at the annual dinnerdance of the Road Passenger and Transport Association, in Birmingham, last week, Mr. Skelding had previously referred to the co-operative and happy 'relations which existed between the Association and its former opponents, the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., and Birmingham City. Transport. In the 19 years of its existence, the number of vehicles represented by the Association had grown from 40 charsa-bancs to 1.220 public-service vehicles and nearly 1,000 goods vehicles.

The Transport Act had changed the future of goods transport, as it would change the future of everyone present.

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All he could say was that the Association'sfreight vehicles which were acquired would be handed over in good order.

" Mr. R. Stuart-Pilcher, C.B.E., F.R.S.E., • Minst.T., West Midland Licensing Authority, said that the transport industry "would always be successful and referred to the gratifying postwar export figures. Whilst passenger road traffic had gone up" since the war, all other passenger traffic had declined.

Mr. J. Fpley-Egginton, A.M.Inst.T., West Midland • Deputy Licensing Authority, drew attention to events in the North and suggested that the Association faced a bigger job in the future than any it had undertaken in the past.

Aid, W. T. Bowen, LP., and Mr. R. H. Hopton, who is relinquishing the chairmanship after 19 years, following the acquisition of his concern by the State, also spoke.


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