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EARNING A LIVING BY MOTOR HAULAGE.

25th November 1924
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

The Course Recommended to be Pursued by the Small Haulage Concern when the Demand for Transport is Slack.

rir HE price of meat is going up, and so also is the

price of bread. The price of petrol is still down ; in London it is possible to get " No. 1" spirit for is. 2d. per gallon. Of course, it is very soothing to know that you are getting "No. 1, but no one has ever explained to me just what meaning to attach to this numerical distinction between qualities. Logically, I suppose the " No. 1 " which I buy from Mr. Jones-Smith is the best that he has in stock, and the "No. 1" which I buy from Mr. Robinson-Brown is likewise his best brand. It is entirely my own look-out if I am so foolish as to imagine that the " No. 1" which I get from one dealer is precisely the same in quality as I get from the other, or that "No. 1 " means the best spirit which there is on the market. These are matters which can presumably only be decided by advertisement in the first place, and in the second by the personal, and either fortunate or unfortunate experiences of the user of the precious fluid. It is, at least, a fact that numbers of haulage contractors are quite happy in their use of this spirit at Is. 2d. a gallon, and we had perhaps better let it go at that.

Then there is this matter of the new Government. s44 If I am none too good at distinguishing one brand of petrol from another, when all that I have to go upon is the name over the door of the garage where I make my purchase, how am I to be able to foretell the quality of a Government which, to my poor intelligence, differs only from the last ins that the last one labe4led itself Labour, and the present one calls itself variously." Stable " and " Conservative? " These are titles which mean nothing to me, beyond the fact that, having ' -en, as it were, born a little conservative, I shall presumably remain so till the end of my days. What does matter is that

hear reports on all sides, ard in all sorts and conditions of trades, that business is improving, and that it looks like going on improving steadily for some time to come. Here is good news for all of us, but for none more than those who hate to earn their living by motor haulage, for there is.no business nowadays which does nct depend, to a considerable extent, upon road haulage fcr its proper promotion, and it follows, therefore. that those who do the road haulage, are going to feel the benefits of the all-round improvement which is setting in. And we can very well do with it. Most of us are beginning to wonder, too, if this improvement is

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