luses Like Teddybears, says Mr. Featherstone
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3USES and lorries are both great big ugly monsters, not in the least romantic; -I both can cause congestion and both are doing an essential job, vet the bus has tendency to be looked upon in a benevolent way like an outsize teddybear. while se lorry or van is, by contrast, snarled and growled at. Why these different attitudes? 'his was one of the questions asked by Mr. H. R. Featherstone. T.R.T.A. national !cretary, when he spoke at the Western division's annual dinner at Bristol on Friday. He confessed that he had always found this puzzling, and the present image of sad goods transport in the eyes of the general public was a source of concern. ecause the industry was in fact of tremendous economic value to the nation.
Mr. Featherstone thought that the "biting the hand that feeds us" attitude towards te lorry was a symptom Of not yet having come to terms with the motor age; he ished the Public wrath could be deflected from the lorry to the inadequate roads rh i ch were the root of the problem.