THE TRANSPORT ACT AND VEHICLE REPAIRERS
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AiTAY I ask you, as a reader of your journal, how AVI the commercial-vehicle repairers will stand as a result of the coming take-over of long-distance road transport under the Transport Act?
Are the proprietors of these establishments to be killed off in the same way as then particular haulage operators, or will we be able to carry on our work and live under something resembling German control?
As one of many repairers concerned, I would be glad if you would tell us what will happen.
Rayleigh. S. V. Twice.
[It is too early for us to say what arrangements will be made by the British Transport Commission concerning the overhauling and repair of the vehicles which will eventually come under its control. Most of them have not yet been taken over, and the complete process will, no doubt, take a considerable time. Probably there will be a policy of concentration in respect of maintenance, but we presume that for some time, possibly as a long-term programme, many extensive repairs will have to be put out to contract. We are afraid, however, that the smaller concerns will eventually suffer and will have to rely upon the' free" hauliers operating within a 25-mile radius of theil.fespective centres.—ED]