I.T.A. Congress Raises Vital Issues Speakers Make Striking Suggestions for
Page 44
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
Reorganization of Transport and Expose Defects. of Railway Rating System ANCILLARY users should be allowed to carry goods for Lite or reward, but at charges higher than those levied by public hauliers. This is one of several provocative suggestions put forward by Mr. H. H. Caulfield-Giles in a paper on "Industry and Transport," which he read before the 1937 Congress of the Industrial Transport Association, in Birmingham, this week. As vice-chairman of the Traders Traffic Conference and transport and traffic manager of Newton,
Chambers and Co., Ltd., Mr. Caulfield-Giles is well qualified to deal with the subject which he chose.
The second paper, of academic rather than practical interest to many of our readers-, was submitted by Mr. Gilbert Walker, B.A., lectirer in economics at Birmingham University. His subject was "The Part which Efficiency in Transport can Play in Production, Selling and Distribution," and ho criticized the railway rating System.