Mon 23 Aug 1920
To Ministry of Transport
London
A copy of my letter of 1 August was sent to the clerk of the Gloucestershire County Council at the same time as the letter was forwarded to you. The statutory provision under which the Company of Proprietors of this Navigation propose to apply for a warrant and order for abandonment is Section 45 of the Railway & Traffic Act 1888 and the grounds of such application are that if the GCC obtain an order to abandon the T&S Canal, the effect would render this navigation unnecessary as the Proprietors would be unable to keep it open for traffic and in the course of time it would become derelict.
