THE STEAM LORRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15055, 26 July 1912, Page 4

THE STEAM LORRY.

Sir,—Tho Newmarket Borough Council does not seem anxious to have its new roads tested with a 15-ton steam lorry that fairly rips up the roads," according to on© member present. This member evidently trusts-to his imagination for this fact. No steam lorry ever built weighs 15 -tons, and they are far and away easier on the road than the three-inch tyred waggons. There is only one commercial firm using a steam lorry, and this lorry weighs four tons, with coal and water for a 20-mile run; it has 32 inches of tyre surface, and carries the same load as tho ordinary four horse waggon. One can quite understand Newmarket, with its new-born street, wanting to wrap it up in cotton wool, and not let anyone wheel it but themselves; but there are several hundred of these steam lorries running in London to-day on streets th© same >as Newmarket is putting down, and there is no talk of taking them out of existence. Just so sure as the taxi has ousted th© cab, so sure will the steam lorry take th© place of th© horse waggon, and now that everyone is talking about permanent roads, why not put them down to stand modern traffic. The Dbiveb. July 24, 1912.