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BEFORE the end of the year, the National Conference of Road Trans, port Clearing Houses hopes to meet the Road Haulage Executive to discuss ways of providing clearing-house facilities for nationalized undertakings. Mr. J. W. Ellis, chairman of the Conference, who made this statement at the annual luncheon last week, referred to the reluctance of traders to give traffic to the Executive. He said that they preferred to pass it through a clearing house. He also expressed doubts about the practicability of denationalization. Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, chairman of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, declared that road transport had suffered from the restrictive practices of successive governments. He deplored the state of affairs in which, five years after the end of the war, next year's allocation of commercial vehicles for the home market was to be reduced
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by about 33 per cent.. compared with the quota for this year. Pointing out that transport represented 10 per cent, of the cost of every product, he said that the Government should encourage the expansion of road transport as part of the drive for full mechanization in industry. Mr. David Gammans, M.P., who made a gloomy forecast of the future of the middle class, declared that the most stupid person in business was the man who said, "I am not interested in politics." Unfortunately, said Mr. Gammans, politics was interested in him. Mr. 13. G. Turner, chairman of the Road Haulage Association, declared that every time the British Transport Commission implemented some part of the Transport Act that damaged the interests of hauliers, the Association's membership increased. It now had over 19,000 members.