Three Rail Removals = One Fire!
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THRgE rail removals, I am told, are as good as a fire," said Lt.-Col. 3. Sandeman Allen, MC., T.D., M.P., amid laughter, at the autumnal dinner of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, in London, last week. Referring to unfair railway competition, . he declared that "the. railways are a national necessity, but they need not be a national menace. Road transport is a tremendous national asset."
Mr. Thomas Ormesher, president, said that there would be no amalgamation or loss of individuality of the Association. Whilst, in his view, licensing and control did not arrive too early. control by regulation was tantamount to dictatorship.
Major W. Taylor, MC., vice-president, stated that removers welcomed the giving of statutory force to the wages agreement. Speaking of the "day-to-day ". regulations governing road transpolt, he pointed out that 12 544 sets of figures and markings have to be displayed on a vehicle and trailer.
" A licensing Authority may allow sympathy to assist him, but he has to decide an application according to the evidence," said Mr. Gleeson E. Robinson, M.C., LL.D., Metropolitan Licensing Authority. "It is extremely depressing," he added, "to have
repeatedly to say ' It must, however, be remembered that the licensing Authorities have nothing to give."
He asked the Association to influence operators to pay greater regard to licence conditions, particularly those designed to safeguard the public.
Mr. Charles A. Davis, the Association's solicitor, said that Mr. Gleeson Robinson had done much to fix the standard in licensing procedure, and congratulated him on his decision in the Bouts-Tillotson case.
Other speakers were Sir Arnold Gridley, K.B.E., M.P., Mr. F. C. Skinner, past president, and Sir Henry Fildes.