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Select Committee's Comments on Passenger Transport

23rd October 1942
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Page 18, 23rd October 1942 — Select Committee's Comments on Passenger Transport
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

TE recently issued report of the S-elect Committee on National Expenditure contains some interesting comments upon passenger-transport facilities.

Previous to the war the number of new buses supplied for the whole country was about 6,000 per annum. For the first three years of hostilities the normal supply would have included. some 5,000 double-deckers; instead, the number was about 1,200. The M. of S. hopes to provide 50 per cent. of the normal next year. It will also arrange for the production of some single-deckers to carry 32 people. It is essential that passenger transport by road should be kept effective, and the Select Committee is convinced that transport for all classes of the corn munity must be placed in the highest category of importance; If workers and staff cannot arrive punctually the output of factories will drop, whilst the morale of the country will be affected if the housewife cannot do her shopping or her child cannot get to and from school. Insufficient transport is claimed to be one of the main causes of absenteeism and lost time. The Committee felt that a serious cause of the trouble was the high percentage of absenteeism among conductresses.

Staggering of workers'. hours in factories in the same area and in different shops in the same factory would mitigate the transport difficulty. The earlier closing of shops in central shopping areas should be enforced.


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