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BRITISH commercial motor manufacturers are all playing a vital part in the national war effort and some of them, because of urgent demands for the many specialized implements of war, have had their ordinary trade activities interrupted. Nevertheless to maintain the internal trade of the country and to keep the Nation's defence strength up to requirements, makers have an important task to execute, quite apart from the need for maintaining overseas trade during the war and of exploiting its possibilities for development when peace once again falls mercifully upon a distracted world. The pictures on this page afford an idea of the virility of the commercial-motor industry under the restrictive conditions imposed by the stress of war. Guns may be more essential than butter under some perverse forms of Government. but food for non-combatants is iust as important as shells for the guns, and its speedy country-wide distribution, when alternative systems of transport are taxed to the uttermost, is possible only by road motors, which offer unsurpassed flexibility. Truly, when this gory catastrophe is over will the Nation have reason in extenso to thank its road-transport industry and the men who have never ceased to stress its primary importance as the life-blood of the country.