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Repeal promise
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• When the Conservatives are returned to power they will not introduce an enormous Transport Bill but simply some short, sharp, repealing legislation, Mr. Peter Walker, Tory Shadow Minister of Transport, promised on Wednesday. Addressing the annual luncheon of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, he said his way of tackling quantity licensing, for .example, would be simple: extend the radius limit from 100 to 10,000 miles.
He told his audience that no one knew the implications of quantity licensing—for instance, for clearing houses—least of all the Ministry of Transport. He supported quality licensing, and once again pledged his party to building more roads; and he said that his aim would be to make the railways more efficient rather than propping them with legislation; any traffic they gained would have to come through commercial competition.
The NCRTCH chairman, Mr. S. Marsh, pointed out that the "iniquitous" Transport Bill was largely an enabling measure, giving powers. He estimated that 38 pieces of implementing legislation would be needed to give it effect. He said there was growing evidence of low and insupportable rates being quoted by BR for Freightliner traffic: custom was being bought, at the eventual expense of the taxpayer.
In his annual report (in which he revealed that the legislation proposed for the carriage of inflammable goods by road had been deferred for consideration by the Home Office legal department) Mr. Marsh questioned the future role of the Conference. The National Council had, he said, discussed what its future might be, and he reminded members that to demonstrate strength demanded unity in numbers. Mr. Peter Walker in his speech gave encouragement to the Conference, saying he believed it had a great part to play in the natural market activities of the road transport industry.