Lesson 'in Economies • • for Mr.-Davies
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cPEAKING at the annual dinner of L) Bedford Sub-area -of the Road Haulage Association on Wednesday, Mr. R. B. Brittain, chairMan of the Eastern -Area, gave NI r. Ernest Davies, the Labour Party's principal exponent of renationalizaticn, a lesson in economics. Referring to' Mr. Davies' statement that the Labour Party would not pay for the goodwill of haulage businesses, Mr..Brittain said: .
" Mr. Davies needs a lesson in economics. Goodwill is one of .the .soundest assets of a business, and it is certainly among the chief .assets possessed,by freeenterprise road hauliers.They, have built up this goodwill by ,,serving the community efficiently and speedily, and by helping to keep down the cost of living of the ordinary man and woman; thereby making the housewife's purse . stretch farther.
" But Mr. Davies is, perhaps, right in thinking this goodwill would not be worth paying for if the Labour Party managed to bamboozle the electorate. into voting. for them on some red herring or other, so that the party could claim a mandate to put into effect every crack-brained and dogmatic pipe-dream in the noddles of its rabid Left Wingers. All the goodwill that free-enterprise service has created would vanish like the nationalized railways' profits the moment the State bureaucracy stepped in."
RATEPAYERS' " VICTORY "
INTRODUCTION by the London Trans". •port Executive of a bus service at weekday, peak hdurs between Upminster station . and Corbets Tcy, Essex, is regarded as a victory by the local ratepa.3.'ers' association,who have been
• proViding a free service with hired coaches. • • The Executive, however, claim that the new 'facility was -not forced upon them, but was introduced after a special check of .passengers using the station: • The association are to continue run
fling their service, which has a 10-minute frequency, because the L.T.E. buses run only every 21 minutes.
BONUS SCHEMES FOR BUSMEN
APART from a paper, on bonus incentive scheme's for traffic staffs by Mr. R... Cox, of Rochdale (already announced in The Commercial Molar), the programme for the annual conference of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association at Edinburgh in September includes an address on "The Future of Municipal Transport" by Cllr. W. Alker, of Bury.