MOTORING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15718, 19 September 1914, Page 4

MOTORING.

i NOTES AND COMMENTS- ' Motor transport is playin# * c i part in the European war. :_e sooui yjpj c£ France, BeJmu:n. and ucimany ffiOSJ Be'u:a:n. and Ocrmany ! motor-traction 10 bo l -- ie 3 10 «■»* j ; n lk» I extent. Of all the count »f«*ced m«d | titanic struKglo England .i bts ' w 0l >n 1 for no ivy ir.ov.r-i: a-.u vtn -\ ' fiWj addition to cvtr a 1000 ttir>sid;B3i a _, e rI lorries, she has many i!*c,u-:iuu3 o: . L „ p it I ciai vehicles, which sc." 'in J-"' _, cn ' needed. ilu«» c: the T" au V O% " Jpo# have for seme tint* t-w. Ned in otffWj, a subsidy whereby t.:o o*.a<« , -j vehicles up to a certain sturuard aud I were paiu a flib-tin:;*. snutifti - ' . # ! thereby «ucour.i„'tna .-oiaajc-icwl ho . i order vehiciea ;! a ;;iu.ar »° aUtiori- ! proved by Jbo mpec.uo .I.. :iary lin * n \» to : ties. In England a subv.dy . a:u ° cad ±'110 wm paid to coir.ins.-ri .a; (icuses. • 0 I ever a term oi thro yea.'--. £J« . ei-fc ,1 on enrolment, "hat is af'or the vehio i | been accepted by the »«r antn°r.iie . , i'SO in instalments. The auosiuiseu \ , bad to be examined !*m a year. and « „( immune from requisition by the u'*®" until called un by a union f, rd * lrfl inbenefit ot this arrangement v.oit.u u ; 3i valuable to England in '.he prc-ei.t -i-jjj. for over 1000 picked 1.-r. .«•* were a* --m« and what is . t fortner imroriacj* -1,, 3000 skilled drivers were *!*•> enrolled fleet oi vehicles would b i capable ot porting 3000 tot 3 of supplies aiong WJ . road at 3 ra-e of 12 n.::ca in flour. • i doubt a considerable portion ot . ' cL-nce. of cars is already in operation in S«: , lAf regards futtao supplies of heavy wu . to supply the wastage in France, the OKWy > ,of this type of tractor ia about SO » ,ji 'in England, to that in this rOS P kwlt , r [ British expeditionary forces are not a , . I to go short of heavy motor vehicles- . Lla*V. » : ,