No Motors at the Royal Show.
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• The Editor, TRE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. ,
[1618] Sia,—If ever a Government appear&I destined to see mountains where only molehills stood, and to grasp at the shadow in mistake for. the substance, surely it is that one which is in power in the present year of our Lord, and if anything more futile than the plastering of hoardings-with posters begging one not to motor for pleasure were possible, surely it is the exclusion of motor vehicles from the Royal Agricultural Show for this year.
Perhaps at no previous time has it been so necessary for the farmer to be educated as to the uses of mechanical power in connection with his industry. This applies to the transport of his goods to quite as great an extent as it does to the tilling of his land. Labour is scarce, and likely to be more so ; horses are lacking, and fewer are available as time and the war progress. One would have thought that this year a special effort would have been made to introduce to his •ioticetineiths of replacing this, 'and economizing in that, but no, for the sake of a. week's idleness of perhaps aome• two score vehicles, and attendant extra work which would be caused to sundry members of a.few munition factories, the whole of this very useful propaganda is to be suspended. This is all the more unfortunate since, owing in part to the recent exhibitions of ploughing, the farmer's.interest has of late been considerably stimulatedaas is evident by the-large amount of business done at the Smithfield Show; and again, the increasing interest which is being taken in the agricultural tractor and mechanically-driven agricultural machinery in general,-by agents up and down the country. Surely itisanot too late for some sort of protest to be made, and ,I suggest that your journal would be a silitable-mediuni.Yours faithfully, " AGRICOLA."