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'New Form of Propulsion, Please'

20th November 1964
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

THOSE in the transport industry had 1 to be prepared for change on a big scale, said Mr. Herbert Knox, manager of B.R.S. South Yorkshire and Lincoln district, when addressing the Sheffield division of the Industrial Transport Association on Monday.

There was no doubt that an intensive search for another propulsion agent was absolutely essential and he was pleased to learn that the possibilities of road vehicles using electrical power based on the fuel cell were becoming very real.

The heavy side of haulage steadily became heavier, he said, and whilst 250-ton loads were being carried this figure could be expected to rise to 300 tons in a year or so.

Handling of general cargo at the docks did not seem to have changed over the past 50 years, which was one of the

factors which caused heavy delays. It might have been thought that the success of roll-on/roll-off ships would have conveyed to those in water transport circles that mass moving was the order of the day.

At the present time there was concern at the drift of industry to the South but one of the big attractions was that being gained by proximity to the Greater London market, and the use of a great port. Mr. Knox said he did not think it was much good offering manufacturers special terms to establish themselves in Ulster, Scotland or the North East without including transport in the proposition, utilizing each method—irrespective of ownership—for the streams of traffic to which it was best suited. To meet this proposal a national plan for transport was certainly essential.

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Locations: Yorkshire, Lincoln, London

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