All B.B.C. Publications Go By Rail C ERTAIN road operators, including
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Bouts-Tillotson Transport, Ltd., have suffered a severe blow by the sudden withdrawal of traffic in the distribution of The Radio Times and allied publications. It has been handed les therailways. .
For some• .y.ears ;these ,journals have been. distributed by road -and rail through a big independent publishing house. --With. the ,alteration of, printing and publishingsarrangements, the British Broadcasting ..Corporation has Set up its own, distribution system and has entered into an "agreed-charges " scheme with the railways..
The result is that the .road operators whohave for soldng given excellent service in the prompt delivery of B.B.C. publications with combined circulations running into millions are :now deprived of that traffic. The first issue of The Radii) Times to be carried entirely by rail is , that published to-day (Friday).
It seems significant that, so soon as distribution arrangements Were transferred from an independent publishing house to a State-controlled corporation,a different method of transport should have been adopted. It is believed that the B.B.C. version of the story is that the "agreed charges " quoted were so attractive as to be irresistible, but one cannot avoid a slight suspicion of official bias in favour of the railways.