Manufacturers Common Market?
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ANOVEL suggestion was made by Sir William Black, chairman of the Leyland Motor Corporation, at an informal dinner following the presentation to the IRTE in London of the paper by M. Bechet de Balan of SAVIEM. It concerned economic cooperation of European countries.
The Common Market was floundering, said Sir William, and inferred that hopes for a completely unified Europe could not be fulfilled for many years. Instead of waiting for this, he suggested that vehicle makers in Europe should show the rest of the industries the way by starting a Common Market of their own.
He did not give any indication of how this could be done, but presumably he meant that the manufacturers should persuade their governments to cut out tariffs on vehicles.
I wonder how many would agree with this? Presumably the British would as they have a pretty good record of exporting to European countries.