HC Deb 08 July 1952 vol 503 c1094

"to require the British Transport Commission to dispose of the property held by them for the purposes of the part of their undertaking which is carried on through the Road Haulage Executive; to amend the law relating to the carriage of goods by road and to provide for a levy, for the benefit of the said Commission and for other purposes, on motor vehicles used on roads; to provide for the re-organisation of the railways operated by the said Commission and to amend the law relating to the powers, duties and composition of the said Commission; to repeal certain provisions of the Transport Act, 1947, and to amend other provisions thereof; to amend section six of the Cheap Trains Act, 1883; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid," presented by Mr. Lennox-Boyd; supported by the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, and Mr. Gurney Braithwaite; read the First time; to be read a Second time upon Monday next, and to be printed. [Bill 128.]