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retuned to 1 power at the next general election, nationalization of the transport industry, or of any other industry, will never again be an election issue. The general public are fundamentally opposed to further nationalization measures, and nationalization should be presented to the general public as a vital issue at the coming election. From 1945 the public has had a great deal of experience of nationalization, and is sadly disillusioned by the results.
These views were given by Mr. R. N. Ingram, national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, at the annual dinner of the R.H.A. West Midland area.
After welcoming the abolition of purchase tax, Mr. Ingram said, that it represented a cost saving at the most useful time to the operator, but the consequent reduction in purchase price had little effect on the overall cost of operation in the life of a vehicle.
ALBION PROTECTING GHANA MARKET
1-1 A RECENT visit to Ghana by repre
sentatives of a German vehicle company has resulted in Albion Motors. Ltd., sending their own representative to the country in an effort to safeguard their bus business there. The Germans suggested that Ghana's State buses should be manufactured in Germany, but 95 per cent, of the buses now operated are Albions.
The British company were invited to submit a report and on Tuesday Mr. E. R. L. Fitzpayne, general manager of Glasgow Transport Department, left Britain to undertake the job.
NEW LOOK AT DISC PARKING
APARTY of traffic experts, led by Mr. Alex Samuels, chairman of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, is making a fourday visit to Paris to study the progress of the parking-disc scheme operated in the centre of the capital.