The Minister of Transport and the Secretary for Mines announce that they have appointed a Standing Committee to be known as the Standing Committee on Mineral Transport with the following terms of reference:—To review the equipment available in connection with the transport of coal from the coalfields to the ports and internal markets of the country and the methods of conducting such transport, and, with special reference to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry (1925), to devise means of promoting such improvements in that equipment and its use as will lead to the greatest efficiency and economy in transport, and be of mutual advantage to the coal mining industry and the transport agencies; to report to the Minister of Transport and to the Secretary for Mines upon the steps taken, and upon any further measures necessary from time to time to bring about desirable alterations, and generally to watch over this matter and the progressive realisation of the economies and improvements which the report of the Royal Commission considers possible.
§ The Committee is constituted as follows:—
- Sir Arthur M. Duckham, K.C.B., M.I.C.E. (Chairman), Chairman of the Woodall-Duckham Companies, formerly Member of Council of Ministry of Munitions, Member of Air Council, Director-General of Aircraft Production and Member of the Coal Industry Commission, 1919.
- Mr. R. Bell, C.B.E., Assistant General Manager, London and North Eastern Railway Company.
- Mr. Ernest Bevin, General Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union.
- Mr. J. R. Brooke, C.B., Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
- Mr. H. W. Cole, C.B.E., Assistant Under-Secretary for Mines.
- Mr. F. W. Cooper, Partner in the firm of Messrs. Edwin A. Cornwall, Coal Merchants.
- Mr. H. L. Greiģ, Managing Director of Messrs. J. Brownlie and Company (Hull, Ltd.), Coal Exporters, and President of the British Coal Exporters' Federation.
- Mr. T. C. Hardie, Managing Director of Messrs. Archibald Russell, Limited, Glasgow, Colliery Proprietors.
- Mr. H. J. Heath, Director of the Clyncorrwg Colliery Company, Limited, Cardiff.
- Mr. C. W. Hurcomb, C.B., C.B.E., Principal Assistant Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
- Mr. H. G. Lewis, Chairman and Managing Director of Messrs. Henry G. Lewis and Company, and associated with several other companies concerned in building, repairing and hiring out of railway wagons.
- Mr. J. Milne, C.S.I., Assistant General Manager, Great Western Railway Company.
- Mr. R. F. W. R. Nelson, Chairman and Managing Director, Messrs. Hurst, Nelson and Company, and Chairman of Wagons Repairs, Limited.
- Mr. George Rose, Chairman of Messrs. Rose, Smith and Company, Limited, Coal Factors.
- Mr. Gilbert S. Szlumper, C.B.E., Assistant General Manager, Southern Railway.
- Right Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Parliamentary General Secretary, National Union of Railwaymen.
- Mr. L. A. P. Warner, C. B.E., General Manager and Secretary, Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.
- Mr. E. Wharton, Mineral Traffic Manager, London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company.
- The Royal Commission on the Coal Industry (1925) recommended the appointment of such a Committee.
- Mr. W. D. Duffield, of the Ministry of Transport, and Mr. F. C. Starling, of Mines Department, will act as joint Secretaries to the Committee, and all communications should addressed to:—
§ The Joint Secretaries,
§ Standing Committee on Mineral
§ Transport,
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