ABSTRACT
A giant new ministry would be set up to supervise the transport in Britain and, among other things, to take over the encouragement of road improvement which the Road Board had started. The Select Committee, however, realized that measures suitable for wartime might not be suitable to peacetime conditions; and 'considerations may justify from a trader or agriculturist's point of view what, for the community, appears to be uneconomical use of road transport'. Road interests did not like the proposed ministry one bit. In the end the Bill became law without the road interests managing to get roads under a different ministry. The British-made ones would, in any event, have been admitted to Britain duty-free, but the Safeguarding of Industries Act of 1921, while imposing duties on imported cars, had left untouched road freight vehicles. The roads were in a pretty bad shape, though, despite the pre war efforts of the Road Board.
