Bradford Survey Query
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AT a meeting of the Bradford City Council held last week, queries were raised on the resolution of the transport committee to call in a private firm to carry out a comprehensive survey of the undertaking.
Aid. R. C. Ruth asked if it was the view of the chairman and his committee ,that the "highly qualified, fully expert and highly salaried municipal transport manager" was not responsible for and not qualified for (quoting from the report) "ensuring that the future development of the undertaking should be on sound far-sighted lines' ". The chairman, Councillor H. A. Sissling, in his reply said the abilities of the present manager, his predecessors and . his successor were not in question. The suggested survey would take four full-time inde s24
pendent experts at least six months— equivalent to two years of the manager's time. He said previous managers had been fully occupied and to expect the new manager, who had not yet taken office, to carry out a survey in detail as well as the load. of management, would be unrealistic.