Fight Agatnst Tyre Distribution Plan
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FORCES of the road-transport operators' united front, established by means of the Perry scheme, have gone " into battle " for the first time. This fight, which has opened in Yorkshire, is primarily against the Tyre Trade Joint Committee's post-control tyre distribution plan, so far as it concerns the distribution of heavy-duty tyres.
As an outcome of a recent meeting of the West Riding Area Committee of the Road Haulage Association, at which a memorandum criticizing the plan Nyas submitted, there has been established a liaison committee. including West Riding representative § of the R.H.A. and the other two constituent organizations of 'the National Road Transport Federation—the Traders' Road Transport Association and the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. When this committee met in Leeds last week, a resolution was
adopted expressing " great alarm " at the plan's provisions for distribution of heavy-duty tyres, and asserting that they were quite unnecessary.
Voicing 'objection to the proposed restriction on users' direct purchases from manufacturers, the resolution decided that freedom to purchase tyres from the makers must be continued in the post-war period.
The committee recommended " that the whole weight of the National Road Transport Federation be brought to bear from all angles against the introduction of the proposed new plan, and that the National Federation be requested to make country-wide investigations with this end in view."
A point made during the meeting was that the provisions of the plan for the distribution of heavy-duty tyres formed only one aspect of a far-reaching tendency to prevent the user from buying direct from the manufacturer.