IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING TOGETHER
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ONE of the most important events in the Road Haulage Association's calendar was the luncheon of the Central London Sub-area, which took place last Tuesday, with Mr. J. T. Turner in the chair.
The guest of honour was Dr. Charles Hill, M.P. (formerly the Radio Doctor). He mentioned as an example of democratic planning that when a Minister was asked how a cut on housing had been avoided, the reply was that timber had been imported instead of petrol—four days later petrol went off the ration!
Nationalized transport meant that hats from Luton for the heads of Hendon could be carried morally by private enterprise, but it would be immoral to take them to South London. Responding, the chairman said the Association was a contingent of freeenterprise hauliers—the others were enmeshed in red tape. Mr. H. Norman Letts said that if the 1947 Act were repealed, the benefits could be enjoyed only by those who kept together.