A New Year Duty is to Join the C.M.U.A.
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Our general good wishes to readers for the New Year tempered by the times in which we live, appeared in our issue of the 31st ult. We have a. practical suggestion to make now, and it is that those of them who have of late become owners of commercial motors, or who as owners of older standing have not yet realized the application of the old dictum " Union is strength," should forthwith write tio the Secretary of the Commercial Motor Users Association, at 83, Pall Mall, S.W., for particulars of membership. The Commercial Motor Users Association was founded in the year 1903, as the outcome of a. proposal which was put forward by the writer on the occasion of his reading a paper on the subject of " Heavy
Motor Traffic," before the members of the Royal Automobile Club, in the month of November_ Sir John I. Thornycroft, F.R.S., occupied the chair on that occasion, but it was Colonel B,. E. Crompton, M.Inst.C.E., Consulting Engineer to the Road Board, who became chairman of the Association in its earliest days, who has actively helped as the principal official of the Association ever since.
Owners and intending owners will find that amongst the benefits of membership of the C.M.U.A., which is affiliated to the Royal Automobile Club and is that national body's heavy arm, is participation in a well-conceived and economically-conducted system of free legal defence, on any two summonses in 12 months, in respect of any four commercial motors. A low scale of charges enables the owner of a large number of commercial motors to have them included in the scheme. Members ipso facto become Asso ciates of the Royal Automobile Club, and are entitled to use the Associa,tes' Room in the Club premises in Pall Mall, which is undoubtedly a convenience to both town and country members who may desire to have a room at their disposal in London for the purpose of making appointments or conducting their personal correspondence. The Association issues a handsome badge for vehicles, and badges for members and for drivers, at low prices, whilst it iS extending its system of roadside shelter and supply depots on the principal main roads of the country. Members are also entitled, either for themselves or their employees, to participation in the Association's programme of lectures, a new series of which will shortly be announced for the remaining months of the present winter session. Members, too, can enter their vehicles for the C.M.U.A. Parades and their men for the examinations, free of charge. The present subscription is one guinea, with an entrance fee of like amount, and we do not hesitate to express the opinion that no taro guineas could be better spent by an owner than by placing himself on the C:M.17.A. register.