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A TRANSPORT election manifesto was suggested last week for the Conservative Party's new leader Mrs Margaret Thatcher by Mr H ugh Featherstone, director of the Freight .fransport Association. Speaking in Norwich, he said that his manifesto-had four points: to give the transport industry political stability so that it could plan; to set it free from unnecessary restrictions; to increase total investment in transport and to ensure that proper weight should be given to transport matters by reconstituting a separate Ministry for Transport and giving its Minister a Cabinet seat.
Mr Featherstone described most politicians' views of transport as presenting a "depressing, unexciting and negative picture". In reality the industry could feel proud of itself because it was an "immaginative, progressive, vibrant economic force far removed from the political perspective which sees it only as a necessary evil".