ROAD VEHICLES OF THE FUTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16202, 27 November 1926, Page 10

ROAD VEHICLES OF THE FUTURE

Mr. F. G. Bristow, general secretary ! of tho Commercial Motor Users' As-' sociation, was the principal guest at a luncheon given by the Hammersmith ; Rotary Club. ; Speaking on tho subject of road; transport, Mr. Bristow said that it 1 would probably surprise most people i to learn that the number of workers ] employed in the read transport indus- j try now exceeded by more than 100,000 j the whole of the workers engaged on : tho railways of Great Britain. It did j not seem to him unreasonable to expect that before long the total number, of commercial vehicles on tho road ( would exceed 500,000, that the _ total j amount of direct taxation paid by owners of commercial vehicles would be in excess of £10,000.000, and that > the number of workers engaged in the i industry would be something over 1,000.000. He thought that in the immediate future development in road ( transport would be in three directions j —flic increased use of six-wheeled . motor vehicles for heavy loads, the u=e of giant pneumatic tyres, and the development of the electrical vehicle. ,