Albions at the Front

Progress, Volume XI, Issue 11, 1 July 1916, Page 681

Albions at the Front

The following unsolicited testimonial has been received by Messrs Riley & Co. of Wellington who are the local agents for Albion lorries. The letter has been forwarded by the manufacturers to Messrs Riley & Co., they receiving it from one of the motor drivers in German South West Africa.

M.T. A.S.C., Aldershot. Dear Sir, —

I am sending you a few photos that I thought you would like to have which have been taken in German "West Africa by myself. As perhaps you know these cars belong to the South African Railways and have been running for nearly two years before they went to the Front, and as I can tell you they were the best lorry there, although they were second-hand. In fact I think with a few new tyres and a little doing up they would do another two or three year's work without trouble. As you will see according to the photos that two of your cars are loaded with two 2-ton lorries which had not done one month's work and had to be fetched home on two of your lorries. The third and fourth photos I have sent are just to show you the nature of the ground we had to travel on. In one place it took us three days to do nine miles on account of the sand, and the Albions were the only cars to get through.