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The Show of Enormous Value to the User.
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UP ON the Show period the two industries concorned with mechanical 'road transport— operating the vehicles and designing and making them—have now entered, and there is not the slightest question as to the immensity of the interest of it to each side. We count ourselves fortunate in enjoying the confidence of both user and maker : we hear about the requirements of the one and the ambitions and intentions of the other, and we are able to watch the unremitting efforts which are being made to reconcile them.
The industries are both progressing. There is enterprise on the part of the user, whether be be the owner of a fleet employed as part of the equipment of a manufacturing or trading business, or a haulier or carrier dealing with the traffic of other people ; whether he be plying for hire in public passenger service or carrying out contracts for municipal authorities. Mechanical road transport has, it is safe to say, merely begun to enter into the lives and businesses of the community. It has profoundly altered them already, but as many are yet unaffected, the scope for expansion almost seems to be unlimited.
The railways taught us the advantages of transport by increasing facilities and removing many restrictions. The motor lorry and the motor coach are carrying that education infinitely farther, and within their limitations of carrying capacity and speed are doing better, far better, than the railways have been able to do. For instance, village life was barely affected by the railways ; the market town was a long. way off and the journey was more easily and conveniently effected by road. With the coming of the motorbus the village has been linked to the town, and often to two or three towns i and there is less of the discontent at the trammelled life which a villager was, perforce, formerly compelled to lead.
The provision of the facilities and the speeding up of road communication are opening up possibilities every day, and it will be many years before it will be reasonable to assert that road transport has attained the limit of its development. Users, therefore, will visit the forthcoming Shows (at Glasgow during the current week, at the Agricultural Hall, London, next week, and at Olympia during the ten days from November 17th) with
their minds bent upon discovering the possibilities that stand behind the latest ideas in design and construction. They will see evidences of advance and improvement on every hand, and each can be an incentive or an instigator of seine new scheme of transport employment.
The -six-cylindered six-wheeled bus can be indicated as an example ; with such a vehicle an entirely new passenger service could be opened up which would, because of certain circumstances, have been impossible with a vehicle that fell far short of it in comfort and carrying capacity. So it must be in every branch of the transport industry, and, because it is so, no user of transport can afford to stop away from the Shows, and particularly from those at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, and Olympia, London, the latter of which is expressly devoted to the commercial mOtor vehicle.