§ MR. REESI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he can prescribe, as far as may be, the use of home-grown oak for the construction of railway carriages and wagons in the United Kingdom, in view of its greater power of resistance in accidents and general superiority to American and other oak.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. LLOYD-GEORGE, Carnarvon Boroughs)The Board of Trade are unable to prescribe the use of any particular kind of timber, and I have no reason to believe that wood of insufficient strength is used in the construction of railway carriages and wagons.