ting operators to pallet-pool talks
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Ministry of Transport will be inviting d Haulage Association and the Freight irt Association to discuss proposals for : pool when they have had time to r a report on the subject.
is of a summary of the consultants' the feasibility of a pallet pool for the Kingdom, just published, had been the RHA and the FTA, said Mr. Marsh, the Minister of Transport, last old MPs that the foreword to the y invited comment on the proposals in )rt which, on the basis of a conclusion that a pool was both feasible and desirable, recommended a further, detailed, pool im plementation planning study.
The Department was well aware of the existence of the pool run by the railways on the Continent, and of the technical problems arising from differing pallet specifications, went on Mr. Marsh.
But when Mr. Leslie Huckfield (Labour, Nuneaton) asked about consultations on the formation of a European pallet pool, Mr. Marsh said it would be premature for him to do this before the study of the subject in the United Kingdom was further advanced.