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Uncertainty in Transport
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" COMINGS and goings in the general %--• ownership and control of road transport, with the promise of further legislation in certain eventualities, make for uncertainty," stated Mr. W. D. Broadbent, chief transport executive of Rylands Bros., Ltd., and the Whitecross Co., Ltd., when he addressed the Merseyside branch of the Industrial Transport Association last week.
Pressure being brought to bear on the Government to improve the roads had its good points, "but only on the assumption that the vast tonnage at present being carried through the streets is to be continued, a position which is by no means certain," Mr. Broadbent said.
He thought that the railways would concentrate on heavy long-distance traffic. They could not compete in short-distance work, particularly where urgency or packaging were factors to be considered.