The Next Five Years
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AGREAT burden would be thrown on transport administrators within the next five years, said Lord Lucas at the Institute's annual dinner. During that period the country would have to give serious attention to its transport problem, the fringe of which had not
yet been touched. It would not, be solved by a competitive system. Eventually, the taxpayer might have to pay for essential unremunerative services.
Lord Merrivale, the Institute's new president, hoped for further co-ordination between road and rail. He thought that consideration should be given to
the development of special vehicles to carry railway trucks to factories to avoid the expense of laying down sidings. He called also for continued pressure for the relief of taxation, an increase in the speed limit on heavy goods vehicles and the staggering. of working hours.
Mr. B. Ratcliffe Miller, chairman of the national council, thought that there was no fear of duplication among academic and technical institutes. Operators, he added, should not turn aside from accepted means for transport just because something new was produced.