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complete the denationalization of ritish Road Services it will first be ;sary to convince the customer that ers can do the job better, Trade industry need tangible proof in ion to a belief in the ideal of private prise.
is was pointed out last week by Mr, 2. Rees-Davies, M.P., president, at annual luncheon of the National erence of Road Transport Clearing s• aid that in this modern age of
industrial and trade organizations Ls necessary to have some transport of comparable size, With the return e present Government at the coming on, he believed confidence in the would have been sufficiently gthened to permit the possibility of cing companies large enough to take units of the B.R.S., though not .sarily within the same geographical Lure.
eater co-operation was required een existing units of transport run private enterprise—in most large rican towns a common rate schedule operated. A vast increase in intermental trade was expected to develop e near future, so larger office staffs d be required to deal with the table documentation and foreign spondence. Small hauliers would be le, individually, to afford such ases in overhead costs and they must rerate if they were to compete with is for this new traffic.
H. G. B. Wilson, M.P., claimed the Labour Government, at the time lationalization, had set both the stry of Transport and the British sport Commission an impossible task ssess customer requirements on a nal scale. Only. private enterprise Rear enough to the customer to do mccessfully.
was the Government's policy to let tiblic have the transport they were ired to pay for, and he would not irprised if there were a favourable tion in the rate of motor taxation e next budget.