S'.M.M.T.'s "Strong Representations"
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A DDRESSING the 60th annual general I-1 meeting of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders last week. Mr. Donald Stokes, the Society's president and sales director of the Leyland Group, said that the Transport Bill as originally drawn had given B.T.C.-owned concerns virtually unrestricted power to. manufacture motor vehicles for both home and export markets. "The Society oppose this extension of the 'powers Of the nationalized industries and have made the strongest representations against them," he said. "I am happy to report that these have been partially successful but disappointed that it was not possible to retain the quotas in the 1947 Act, which were, after all, by a Socialist administration."
Saying that the overwhelming need for the motor industry now was to hold current prices and if possible reduce them, Mr. Stokes remarked that so far they had had no chance to do this, having had to contend with rises in the price of basic materials such as steel and coal. Despite this he was able to report that the latest figures showed British commercial vehicle exports to be maintaining their lead over those of any other country.