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NO B.R.S. PRIORITY FOR EXPORTS 1k4R. THOMAS GALBRAITH, Parliam mentary

21st February 1964
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Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, turned down a suggestion that British Road Services should be told to introduce a priority system for export orders.

B.R.S. was fully conscious of the importance of export traffic, he said, and it was for the company, in its responsibility for management, to decide how it could best handle this traffic.

Mr. Philip Goodhart (Tory, Beckenham), had raised the matter by asking that a suitable direction should be given to the Transport Holding Co.

Parking Plans

MR. MARPLES and Sir Keith Joseph intend to issue as soon as possible a joint planning bulletin on parking in town centres. It would include advice on off-street parking facilities, said Mr. Marples, when he made the announcement in the Commons.

Headlights in Fog

THE compulsory use of dipped head' lights in fog was forecast in the Commons. Mr. Thomas Galbraith, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, said that the Minister hoped to embody some such provision as this at the earliest convenient opportunity, when there was future legislation.

Mr. Roger Gresham Cooke (Tory, Twickenham) asked if the Minister would also consider making headlights compulsory at night.

London Traffic Survey F1RST results of the London. traffic I survey will be published this spring. Announcing this in the Commons last week, Mr. Marples said they would analyse existing traffic patterns. A further report later this year would examine transport needs in 1971 and 1981.

More study was needed to determine the best overall transport system to meet these needs, went on the Minister, and arrangements for this were now being discussed.

'No' to Transport Moves TE removal of transport firms' offices tio centres of relatively high unemployment such as Liverpool, was suggested in the Commons.

Mr. A. 3. Irvine (Labour, Edge Hill) asked Mr. Marples to consult with commercial and industrial undertakings on the possibility of removing their administrative headquarters and divisional offices, where this would not result in any loss of efficiency. Mr. Marples refused to do this. He did not consider that any special consultation of this kind was needed in the case of transport undertakings, he said. They were aware of the Government's general objective to secure a more even spread of economic activity throughout the country.


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