'Aldenham lease justified'
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THE London Transport Board was justified in deciding to lease about one third of its workshop area at Aldenham, said Lord Champion, Minister without Portfolio, last week. The alternative, members of the Upper House were told, was to allow it to lie idle.
Lord Willis had suggested that handing over part of the works to a private contractor rather went against the Government's intention to extend the manufacturing powers of the nationalized transport undertakings. It would, he said, effectively prevent the use of these works by London Transport for the manufacture of their own bus bodies.
Lord Champion pointed out that reductions in the size of the Board's vehicle fleet, coupled with the reorganization of the maintenance work undertaken at Aldenham had enabled the Board to vacate about one third of the workshop area.