TRUCKS FOR ARMY
HUNDREDS MORE WANTED VEHICLE CONTROLLER’S APPEAL The Southern Army Command requires some hundreds of additional vehicles and the District Motor Vehicle Controller (Mr J. G. Ingram) asks that every owner of trucks from one ton upwards who can possibly do without them should make them available for the Army. “Owing to the number of appeals upheld and the vehicles rejected because of mechanical condition the need is acute,” said Mr Ingram this morning. "The only way our mobilised men can be made effective is to give them the wheels to make them mobile. There is no cull now from the authorities for cars but trucks from one ton upward, preferably with twin rear wheels, are required at once. The prices given for them are satisfactory and are such that a whiling purchaser would agree to pay. In my opinion anyone who withholds a truck if he can possibly do without it is holding up the defence of the country.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 24 January 1942, Page 4
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162TRUCKS FOR ARMY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 24 January 1942, Page 4
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