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The Loyal Determination of Users.

19th November 1914
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Page 1, 19th November 1914 — The Loyal Determination of Users.
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Users of commercial motors have suffered not, a few material injustices without serious complaint, due to impressment valuations, because of their loyalty and patriotism. They have debated with themselves, and hesitated once and yet again, before deciding that action of some kind was imperative. Minor inequalities have have been overlooked by the hundred, but there remain numbers of instances which are too glaring and too burdensome financially to be silently endured. These are the cases which should go before a Court of Compensation, and not before the County Court Judges. More will be heard of them. There is another kind of loyalty to which we must refer. It is the loyalty of the user to the cause of commercial motoring. Assaulted by a congeries of shocks which still holds sway, we discern that users as a body remain staunch to their belief in mechanical road transport as the way above all ways to effect their deliveries. They will not be losers in the end : the old customers, and the early new ones, will get preferential delivery from makers as soon as may be. It is useless for would-he buyers to grumble. Those who know their own minds and consult their real interests are not doing so. They have given their replacement orders and are sitting tight. The present dislocation of their collection and delivery routine does not dismay them. It enforces a lesson of which some were in need—that there can be no reversion to the horse. Since it is the fixed determination of the experienced owner of commercial motors to get new vehicles at the first permissible opportunity, how much more should the mere looker-on, the man who has lost or is about to lose his horses, fall into line. Output of approved makes is allotted far ahead. Prices will not fall. Now is the best time to order. We so advise the user and intending user, with close knowledge of the facts. Not a single written or verbal coinmunication has. reached us to the effect that any owner is glad to embrace the opportunity to give up his motors. Several offers of sale came, in the course of our correspondence in August last, from Owners whose activities were paralysed for want of raw materials, but they did not want to sell their vehicles on any score of dissatisfaction with them. It was a response to our call for all-round help, and the Government acquired all that were suitable. Was there ever a greater invitation to owners to change to something else ? War effects first, and indefinite delivery dates still? We believe that all the changes are of an enforced and tempae-ary nature ; all users are longing to get back to the motors. We deal, of course, with the three-tonners, because the disturbance below that capacity has been relatively small. It is the universal loyalty of owners thatin our judgment furnishes above all else significant proof of satisfaction with commercial motors and the work they can do. The cause and future of commercial motoring will not suffer by the interregnum.

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