Warning on vehicle substitution
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A GOVERNMENT warning was given last ' week to anyone who thought he could substitute for a works vehicle—which can receive an investment grant—"something which can be used for a totally different purpose-.
It came from Lord Rhodes. Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, during an Upper House discussion of the Industrial Development Bill.
Lord Rhodes was resisting an amendment moved by Lord Drum albyn—which would have given grants to a wider range of vehicles, including those used for carrying semi-manufactured goods from a firm's plant in one area to another perhaps hundreds of miles away.
Lord Drumalbyn said that as firms had been encourage to expand into development districts it seemed reasonable that vehicles constructed or adapted for carrying goods from one plant to another in the original premises should receive the grant if their use was to be confined to carrying loads from one plant to another Far distant.
If this point was not conceded, then obviously the attraction of setting up a factory elsewhere was to that extent diminished, said Lord Drumalbyn.
Lord Rhodes replied that he could not concede anything on this point. Where a new business had been established in a development area the moving of goods would be brought right into the realm of transport, and it would not be allowed.
Stating that he would withdraw the amendment., Lord Drumalbyn said he could see the difficulty Lord Rhodes was in about competition with other forms of transportation.