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" E first that you may be of service"' has ever been the guiding principle in the policy of The Commercial Motor. It has not been difficult to live up to, because users of commercial motors generally have shown a reasonable degree of willingness to communicate facts and figures 'discovered in the course of their experience in 1rthe conduct of transport, and it is rare that important information is withheld from us, provided we give our undertaking, and act upon it, not to disclose the source. Manufacturers, also, have desired to place before the readers of this journal first information of their new products, so that the regular reader has always been kept up to date in his knowledge of current technical practice.
A particularly valuable section of the work Of the staff of the journal has been the compilation of the operating costs of every type of vehicle. The figures have been published for many years and are unique. They are based upon definite results, obtained by users everywhere, lnall classes of work and under all sorts of conditions. The work of collecting all this information and reducing it to a useful group of tables is colossal, but tB28 we have a great volume of evidence that the published results are valued on every hand, forming an excellent guide to costing and to charging. These tables, by the way, have just been revised, and will be republished in our next issue.
In the pursuance of the policy of freely rendering service to our readers, we reply every week to a large number of questions on every conceivable phase of the subject Of mechanical road transport. Many of the letters deal with legal matters ; a large number with operation, methods, principles, rights and customs. As an example, when the new registration regulations came into force, we replied to 850 legal and semi-legal conundrums in a month! This service is given willingly and without charge, and, on that account, we only beg readers to be reasonable in their demands upon our time. This issue will inevitably come into the hand* of many to whom the journal will be more less unknown, for there are always newcomer* to' the transport industry. They are asked not to judge the paper upon one issue, but to study It closely for a few weeks ; we are confident that there will then be many more regular readers.