Sir Gurney Calls for Humber Bridcre
25th October 1957, Page 39
25th October 1957
Page 39
Page 39, 25th October 1957
— Sir Gurney Calls for Humber Bridcre
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ACALL for the building of a bridge across the Humber as part of the national road programme was made last week by the president of the Sand and Gravel Association of Great Britain, Sir Gurney Braithwaite. Speaking at the annual dinner of the North of England area of the Association he claimed that traffic congestion round the port cost about £1150m. a year.
Sir Gurney admitted, however, that his own record in the matter was rather erratic. In 1947 he led a deputation to the Ministry of Transport and was told that the country's finances could not bear the cost of the project. Four years later, when he himself was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of
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