ABSTRACT
Coming from the General Manager of all the Underground Group's tramways and the Chairman of the Tramways & Light Railways Association, Spencer's evidence before the Royal Commission on Transport in 1929 carried much weight. He rightly urged that competing bus operators should be subject to some of the labour, fare and stopping-place conditions imposed on tramways. Tramway companies should not have capital wasted by unrestricted competition. The tramways’ burden of road maintenance and local taxation should also be lightened.
