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Minister Looks Beyond Geddes
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" IT would be wrong to take Geddes in
!• isolation", commented Mr. Tom Fraser, the Minister of Transport, when addressing 600 members and guests at the annual dinner of the Traders Road Transport Association on Monday.
Mr. Fraser said he did not take the view that one could leave everything to competition and that price would determine the means of transport by which goods were sent. It was essential first to take a critical look at the current position and it was his intention that such a study should be completely objective. Meanwhile, it would be extreme folly on his part to take hasty decisions.
He commended the T.R.T.A. for its contributions towards the problem of road safety stemming from its recommendation for improved vehicle maintenance. Discussion was now taking place on new proposals for plating to apply to goods vehicles of 30 cwt, or more, in line with the proposed annual testing. Stronger enforcement measures would be taken against selfish users who endeavoured to avoid their obligations as to maintenance. He expected special tests for heavy goods vehicle drivers would be necessary in the "not very distant future ".
"By whatever yardstick, commercial road transport is amongst the biggest of our industries ", maintained Mr. K. C. Turner. president of the T.R.T.A. But despite all the public discussion of transport, he remarked, little was said of a most important factor—namely the tremendous contribution which road transport made to the economic wellbeing of the country.
Roads as well as vehicles were factors contributing to transport efficiency. Science and technology were regularly associated with new vehicles, but transport engineering could, with profit, examine other technologies, were comments made by Sir Harold Roxbee Cox, chairman of the Metal Box Co.