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Goods-carrying Vehicles and the User
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ro the same occasion at which the kJ above paper was read, Mr. C. le.M. Goeselin, managing director of H. Viney and Co., Ltd., of Preston, read a striking paper on goods-carrying vehicles. The purpose of the paper was to indicate to manufacturers how to turn their products to better advantage. He suggested that although the makers realize that they must keep in touch with the users of their machines, his experience shows that they are net sufficiently, alive to the vital need for this action.
To-day, he stated, the manufacturers of vehicles are insufficiently aware of the consequences of restrictive legislation. It may easily happen that optional methods of transport are adopted be
cause of the ready acquiescence to regulations which is seen on all sides today. As an instance, he quoted the speed restrictions, which now mean that the maker is faced with the problem of producing a vehicle of inferior performance if the new laws be accepted, and, in addition, prospects of competing in other countries, where such regulations. are not in force, will be damaged.
Mr. Gosselin stated that competition between manufacturers has drawn away from the real issue their attention; instead of considering the user they are too bound up with the question of inter-factory competition. What the user requires are simplicity, reliability, durability and economy in operation. Simplicity, he stated, is being sacrificed to-day. Constant changes in design hamper reliability.
With regard to the steam wagon, lack of standardization of parts and as great a reluctance to develop new ideas as petrol-vehicle makers show in the opposite direction are to be deprecated. Little, if any, progress, he stated, appears to have been made in the past 30 years. If the steam vehicle is to retain its popularity, it must be improved with regard to cleanliness, ease of starting up from cold, and must be built with closer regard to the load it is to carry. The fact that a 10-tanner can carry 30 tons is ridiculous. The use of solid fuel and non-condensing vehicles are disadvantageous.