Cement Co. Supports Free Enterprise
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INSISTENCE by the Cement Market' ing Co., Ltd., that anti-nationalization posters should be displayed on vehicles carrying heavy plant from the Metropolitan-Vickers works at Barrow-inFurness to a factory in the south, caused Edward Box zncl Co.,. Ltd. (owned by the British Transport Commission), to lose a large contract. Instead, the work was given to John Young, Ltd., Glasgow.
The occasion was used by the "Daily Herald" as an excuse for propaganda in favour of nationalization. According to that newspaper, one of the vehicles (a Foden) of John Young, Ltd., broke down and had to be repaired by a nationalized undertaking. It was also reported that the vehicle experienced a series of adventures and finished at a repair yard at Hayes.
What in fact happened was that the fuel pump of the vehicle became defective and a new one was supplied by a local Foden agent whose haulage business had beer. nationalized. The remainder of the trip was uneventful. I he "repair yard" at Hayes was the premises of Annis and Co., Ltd., a haulage ,concern which had been instructed by the Cement Marketing Co., Ltd., to unload certain plant and store it for delivery at a later. date. The Foden required no further repairs.