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Keywords : Politics

BE FILCHED QPEAK1NG at the annual meeting of 6.-) the East Lancashire Road Transport Association, at Blackburn, on January 31, Capt. W. F. Strickland pointed to the possibility that the Chancellor of the Exchequer might raid the funds of the British Transport Commission to finance. Government schemes, Balances on trading -by the G.P.O. had, he said. repeatedly been filched for other purposes.

Mr. Herbert Allen stressed the danger which the Transport Bill represented to operators of long-distance coach ser vices and excursions. He could not visualize their continuance under the proposed monopoly

Miss P. D. Bridge, secretary of the Association, said that during the past year there had been practically no dispute between independent operators and their workers.

Messrs. J. A. Baird, H. Harwood, and B. Winterbottom were elected to represent Aand B-licence holders. and Messrs. J. T. Moss and T. Fox, Jnr., to represent C-licensees. Mr. J. Ainsworth has entered upon his majority year as chairman, having held the office for 20 years.


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