. Industry's Right of Choice
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WHEN the Manchester and District Traffic Association met in Manchester on Thursday of last week, under the chairmanship of Mr. A. Mycoe, Mr. D. H. Hartley, a barrister, of the Federation of British Industries, said there was an erroneous idea that railways were wrapped up in laws and regulations and that the roads were free, whereas the actual facts were very different. From medieval times road traffic had been regulated,. although the Acts of 1930, 1933 and 1934' placed heavy additional burdens
on road vehicles. He thought that there was every likelihood of more legislation for road traffic.
The spate of Royal Commissions and Committees produced amendments and regulations, for good or evil, but committees must make suggestions for improvements or their days would be over, said the speaker. He believed that industry should say what it wants from transport, and not be told what it can have or how it must distribute its products, and that the more competition, the better the service.