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13th March 1942, Page 22
13th March 1942
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SPEAKING at the Kingston Rotary Club, last week, Major H. E. Crawfurd, President of Associated Road Operators, dealt with the development of road transport, its relations with the railways, and the part to be played by both in post-war Britain.

" After two decades of apparently irreconcilable differences of opinion," said Major Crawfurd, " the two major inland transport services, road and rail, are to-day engaged in working out the conditions under which they will compete with each other in offering their services to the trade and industry of the country.

" Instead Of spending their time attacking and counter-attacking each other, they will be able to devote all their energies to the improvement of their services. From the point of view of post-war reconstruction, this is allimportant. For if the industrial layout of this country is to be modified and factories and mills are to be placed where those who work in them are to enjoy amenities of living so far denied to them, such a change will be based on transport facilities. Transport is the circulatory system that keeps the body economic, healthy and productive.

" In every case, whether it be road, rail, canal Or port facilities, the whole fabric of productive industry rests upon a foundation of convenient, adaptable, speedy and reasonably cheap transport. There is no possibility of attaining this under a centralized system. Sweep away the existing restrictions on all forms of transport so they may react to the demands made on them, let Parliament, with due safeguards for the trader and the public, give statutory authority to the agreements made between road and rail as to the freight charges to be imposed by each, and then leave it to the transport users to choose the form that suits them best."

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