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We see David Rees with a woman and her child taking a journey from the Birmingham area to Market Drayton by three different forms of transport: car (a Mini); bus; and rail. For the car journey we see them filling the Mini with petrol and driving towards the M6 motorway passing road works. The bus journey involves the trio boarding a Midland Red single decker bus and later they're seen getting on to a coach with a Newcastle under Lyme destination board before they are deposited outside a bus depot. The train journey (by diesel unit) involves a change at Stourbridge Junction. We also see heavy traffic in the Birmingham area. The item ends with interviews with a man from a bus company about congestion; Mr Baker from a road haulage company about the lorry versus train debate; and an unnamed planner about the overall transport policy.
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A section of the Midland Red sequence has been removed to the stock library. The only sound on the film is for the interview sequence at the end. The journey sequences are all mute. Possible transmission title: Circulation or Strangulation. The studio interview according to TV Times was the Transport Minister Ernest Marples, Professor J. Kulbuszawski of Birmingham University, Dr Michael Beasley.