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8th September 1967

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Stephen Swingler Esq., MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Transport, at the opening of the Thames Valley bus station, Reading, September 1.

It's a special pleasure to be here to open this new bus station because buses are too often thought of as the Ugly Sisters of transport.

In the age of the electric train, the hovercraft and the universal private car they lack glamour.

They are too familiar to be exciting and they are associated in the public mind with long queues in the rain.

In many ways it's an unfair image—but an understandable one.. .. (For the gist of the rest of Mr. Swingler's speech—see page 35).