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Freedom from New Legislation Urged

4th December 1936
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I N order that co-ordination of trans port might be properly instituted for all time, there should be a period of freedom from new legislation, so that all the forms of transport concerned would have an opportunity of putting their respective houses in order, suggested Mr. G. H. Brook, secretary of the C.M.U.A. North-Eastern Division, in a paper read before the Leeds branch of the Industrial Transport Association, at Leeds, last Friday. In Mr. Brook's unavoidable absence the paper was read by Mr. A. E. Whiteley, secretary of the Hull C.M.U.A.

The co-ordination of transport, he remarked, was the most serious problem which the industry had ever had to face, but by it a fine opportunity was offered to road-transport operators. The Transport Advisory Council's invitation to road interests to submit practical proposals as a prelude to coordination provided an excellent opportunity for road transport to present its case.

Putting forward his own views as to the case which might be submitted, Mr. Brook said he would definitely resist the suggestion that all was well with railways, canals and coastwise shipping. Recent legislation assumed that redundancy and irregularities existed only or mainly in road transport, and it made no aPparent effort to rectify overlapping in railway, coastal or canal transport.

Mr. Brook suggested that the period of quiet which he had advocated would afford an opportunity of seeing exactly, where the 1933 Act required revision.

Remarking that the Transport Advisory Council should give full consideration to the combination of all that was best in road and rail transport, Mr. Brook contended that the railway companies need not, and should not, be allowed to develop their fleets for the purpose of long-distance deliveries by road. Above all, be added, the right of the trader to choose his form of transport should he retained.

During the discussion, Mr. M. C. Vickers (goods organizer, A.R.O. Yorkshire Area) suggested that before coordination of transport could be effective it would be necessary to introduce new legislation to control railway objections to road operators' licence applications.


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