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situation in this country is farcical, said Mr. M. H. Jackson-Lipkin, the well-known transport lawyer, when he spoke as guest of honour at the annual dinner of the Institute of Traffic Administration's London Centre on Friday. Those who set up the 1933 Act did not expect the traffic courts would become a sort of lawyer's paradise, he said, but thought that commonsense would prevail; they intended them to be public inquiries, not court trials. Certainly they did not expect the public carrier to be so restricted or the limited carrier so
free to carry so widely. In sonic cases now the " limited " carrier had more freedom than the " public " haulier. This was the farcical aspect today.
He asked whether the nation could afford the present system of traffic control; the sensible middle course had been avoided, But, he said, the present Transport Tribunal might well be following a course that Would set the haulier free. And the time would come when the bulk of the hablage world would no longer regard the State carrier—road and rail--as an implacable enemy.