ABSTRACT
The new Road Traffic Act, the two Reports, and the subsequent Construction and Use Regulations, in part, did affect hauliers and merchants delivering their own goods. The Final Report of the Royal Commission had left the whole subject of road and rail coordination largely unresolved. The minister in a dilemma after the Royal Commission's Report, did the only possible thing, though there were plenty to argue that he was being pushed by the railways. By the beginning of February 1933, when the various sides had pursued their arguments ad nauseam, a statement issued by the British Road Federation raised another point which had only had a little airing up to that time. The BRF document had no doubt that there was a case of a vested interest which, by propaganda and political pressure was seeking special terms and peculiar treatment for itself, so long as it escaped the economic consequences of its past and of the Depression.
