WILL NATIONALIZATION HARM EXPORT DRIVE?
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THERE was some plain speaking on the nationalization of transport, and its effects on the export drive, at last week's dinner-meeting of the London centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration. Mr. Percy Morris, M.P., thought that national control of railways and ports might cause charges to be reduced, facilities to be improved and amenities to be levelled up, so that the natural routes for traffic could be followed.
Mr. Cyril Osborne, M.P., took the opposing view. Mr. Morris had, said Mr. Osborne, thought that certain good results might be expected in the tong run, but results were needed quickly. Mr. Osborne feared that the supposed benefits would not accrue and that, with slacker discipline, inefficiency would increase and costs would rise still higher.
Mr. A. Bibby condemned the waste mileage run under the war-time Road .Haulage Organization and said that it augured little good for the greater control envisaged in the Transport Act.
Mr. R. P. Bowyer, speaking with knowledge as a Ministry officer, 'declared that present-day light running exceeded that necessary under the wartime demand to "keep the goods moving." Mr, T. F. Rice argued that light running was not necessarily an operating defect.
TYRES TO STOP ELECTRIC SHOCKS
MANY passengers have complained of receiving shocks from static electricity as they board or alight from buses. The high static voltage is said to be generated by the movement between tyre treads and the road surface. Long before the war, Fort Dunlop was producing, for aeroplane tyres, rubber compounds which earthed any electrical charge, the main disadvantage being high cost. Now the Dunlop Rubber Co., I.td., hPve developed a conducting tyre, no dearer than the ordinary bus type and causing no loss of mileage.