ROAD TRANSPORT
SUCCESS IN AMERICA
At one time the owner of the largest fleet of motor transport trucks in tho State of New York, Mr, G. F. Nichols, travelling with his wife and daughter, arrived from Sydney by the Monowai today to connect with tho lonic' foxEngland. He has been five months-in Australia, having stayed longer than he originally intended, and his regret is that ho is unable to see something of tho scenic beauties of New Zealand. "But I hope to como back some day," he declared to a "Post" reporter. .Mr. Nichols was born in Scotland and was" trained in London as a mechanical engineer. He migrated from London to Canada in his early twenties, and after a hard struggle in Canada he went to the United States. In Buffalo, from a modest beginning, he built up his fleet of cartage trucks. The road transport business was then in its infancy. Ho started with one lorry, to complete the purchase of which ho had to borrow money, and in thirteen years ho had 286 trucks. Some big contracts came his way, and it was in his trucks that most of the material was carted for the construction of concrete roads in the State of New York. At the age of 43 ho was able to retire, but he still has business.interests in the United States. Mr. Nichols's home is in Torquay, on the south coast of England.
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Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 8
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239ROAD TRANSPORT Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 8
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