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Staff Problems with Area Schemes

23rd February 1951
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" ECONOMY and flexibility are not to be secured without knowledge Of local conditions. To take the case of the 36 municipal undertakings in the north-west area, it is inconceivable that an area board would have the knowledge of local problems possessed by local government representatives,or that the members of a consultative committee, appointed by the Minister of Transport and only holding office at his pleasure, would take the same iriterest in local problems as is taken by members of local transport committees." Ald. G. W. G. Armour, IP., chairman of the north-western area of the Omnibus Passengers' Protection Assosiation, made this statement last week at the area's annual general meeting. Fle added that if big economies could have been effected by welding different :ornpanies together into larger units, private enterprise would have done so long ago. There came a point beyond which the savings in one direction tended to be offset by increased costs in n other.

A further advantage of the present ;ystem was that there were far more ppportunities for experiment. In lifferent undertakings, countless small sxperirnents were going on all the time. From a national viewpoint, it was essential that industry should be encouraged to experiment. Without the immediate support of the more far-seeing operators, would underfloor-engined vehicles have been developed so quickly? Ald. Armour asked.

It was already exceedingly difficult for cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow to find men with appropriate training for executive posts. "How, then, can the British Transport Commission expect to find men capable of controlling an area which embraces every type of passenger traffic and is likely to be many times the size of the largest undertaking which any transport manager has had to organize?" he asked.

Aid. Armour called upon Chambers of Trade and other trade associations to help the anti-nationalization campaign.

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