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Icy Roads Must Not Hold Up War-time Transport

10th January 1941
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ALETTER stressing that the quick and effective gritting of frostbound roads and the prompt clearance of snow is a direct and important contribution to the,war effort as a preventive of transport dislocation, has been sent' by Mr. G. H. Brook, secretary of the North-eastern Division of

• the C.11/1.U.A.,. to county and local government authorities in the area. Remarking that under war-time conditions, the question of winter road treatment invorves much more than the prevention of accidents, important as that is, Mr. Brook pants out that owing to difficulty in obtaining spare parts and equipment, commercial vehicles dalnaged in collisions and similar mishaps may be off, the roads for weeks, or even months. Moreover, an accident due to an icy road surface may mean that a consignment of essential equipment for overseas will miss the ship.

" All this is the more vital," adds Mr. Brook, " when it is noted that road transport is providing such an irreplaceable service to this country at war, and that rail congestion is being relieved by the transference of traffic to the road. It is obvious that any diminution of our' road-transport service at the present time is aiming a crippling blow at our war effort,"

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Organisations: North-eastern Division
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