What Would Happen To You Without Automobiles

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVII, Issue 14928, 16 March 1949, Page 4

What Would Happen To You Without Automobiles

Do you work in a factory or an office?' Could you get to work and home again, without car or bus? Could the farmer send fresh produce quickly to ypu without trucks? Are'you a salesman? Could you cover your territory as quickly and easily without your car, arriving at your destinations untired and ready .or business?

Are you a parent, sometimes needing a doctor, in a hurry for your young child? Could the doctor reach you if he had no car? Do you want to reach an out-of-the-war vacation place, where you can rest and refresh yourself? Could you do it conveniently without car or bus?

What would happen to your job without motor vehicles? How much of your daily work depends upon your employer's trucks? Could he secure raw materials? Could he deliver his products?

What would happen to all the jobs depending directly on the automotive industry? How about service men, bus drivers, parts and equipment manufacturers, and theii employees? Have you an interest in a rubber plantation, products of which make tyres and other rubber parts for cars and trucks? What would happen to your financial investments i'n such companies, without motor vehicles?

Could you live and work as you are living and working if more than 10 per cent, of the world's automobiles were to stop running? Manufacturing countries have turned out over 122,000,000 automobiles, the huge total of 100,000,000 reached in the United States alone by mid-1948. That its industry knows how to build them for utili'ty, long life, and economic transportation is well proved by acceptance of such a great number, and by the fact that almost half of them, about 55,000,000, are still in use today, even though many are over-age, sadly in need of replacement.