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o aid manufacturers
TISH operators should be prepared to provide financial support Ireserve home-based manufacturers' capacity over the next few Ts, according to Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive ctor-general Alan Westwell.
e first put forward the sugton at the Confederation of ish Road Passenger Trans's conference in Eastbourne
September 19) and exned to CM last week what he in mind.
; operators have been maining vehicle replacement pro-nmes for the remainder of new bus grant scheme's du31-1, and have also been ing service to match reces1-induced drops in demand, -e is likely to be a very severe p in demand for new service es after 1982/83.
1 Mr Westwell's view, rators will still need to rest in capital equipment if they are to continue in business, and he has suggested to CPT that it investigates the feasibility of providing operators' funds to support the manufacturing industry in the period between the end of the current buying phase fund administered by CPT and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and that this be allocated by an agreed formula to preserve the manufacturing capacity needed to meet the industry's future demands.
Once large-scale production resumes, these funds could be returned to the operators as new buses, and, presumably, the manufacturing industry would be in a stronger and more stable position, anyway.