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War Office and Motor Subsidies.

11th January 1906
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Page 1, 11th January 1906 — War Office and Motor Subsidies.
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

The War Office authorities have for some weeks past been reconsidering the question of registering commercial motor vehicles, owing to their appreciation of indications that motor omnibus developments will seriously encroach upon the reserve of horses which are held at the call of the British Army in return for an annual subsidy of nos. per animal. This important change should be provided for betimes. It was our privilege to share with the Hon. Arthur Stanley, M.P., arid Mr. Max Muspratt, of Liverpool, the advantage of meeting a special committee of the War Office on this subject in the year 1902, and we are breaking no confidences in saying that the official view a little more than three years ago was that there were too few vehicles in the country, and that users were asking too biga fee for registration.— £20 per annum. It is probable, having regard to the conditions which obtained prior to the coming into force of the Heavy Motorcar Order, 1904, that no useful purpose would have been served by a system of registration at an earlier date, but it is obvious that fresh arrangements of a mutually satisfactory nature may now be entered upon; owners of vans, lorries, and public service vehicles, will do well to be guided in the matter by the Motor Van and Wagon Users' Association. An annual subsidy of, say, together with a generous scale of purchase prices in order to cover the enforced period of recourse to other and more expensive means of haulage, will most likely be the basis of the contemplated agreements.


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