Anomalous Task Well Done P ARLIAMENT has now approved the Order
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for the dissolution of the Road Haulage Disposal Board and their anomalous task is now almost at an end. They have laboured under a misnomer, for the Act by which the Board were created gave them no power to dispose of anything. That duty was laid on the British Transport Commission and the Board were appointed merely as public referees.
They have certainly shown no favour to the road haulage industry, but they have set the highest standards in the discharge of their office. They have been criticized for keeping theirs sights too high, but the fact remains that willing buyers have been found for the vehicles formerly operated by British Road Services and the Board have cer tainly faithfully carried out their important duty of protecting the public purse.
There must have been occasions when it was difficult for the individual members to reconcile their divergent interests and it is to their great credit that no public disagreement has ever occurred between them. Mr. R. H. Farmer, the road haulage industry's representative on the Board, has certainly not diminished in stature through that association. Indeed, his reputation is even more firmly established.
It is to be hoped that when he is finally released from his present commitments he will return to take an active part in the affairs of the Road Haulage Association and will one day become its chairman.