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Lies, damned lies and statistics
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I REFER to an article "Commercial vehicles sales well up on 1978" (CM, January 19, p5).
Despite a detailed Press release spelling out Ford's performance, your writer has made two mistakes with regard to Ford. Firstly, Ford sold 17,484 rigids and artics, and not 17,099, as stated; and secondly, Ford led the carderived van sector, with 32,416 units, and not Leyland with 29,534 units as stated.
It is easy, on reflection, to see how these mistakes were made, as the SMMT figures list Ford Imports from the Netherlands and Spain under separate headings. We, in fact, imported 385 Transcontinentals and 3,261 Fiesta vans in 1979. Following on from this, I was surprised to see in your Imported Light Vehicles article pp 28, 29 and 30 that the Fiesta van was not mentioned.
G. R. GRACE Chief Press Officer Commercial Vehicles Public Relations Ford Motor Co Ltd Brentwood, Essex seminar on the proposed Ch nel crossing contained a st mary of the contribution fr the Council's chief freight pl ner, Martin Foulkes.
Mr Foulkes is quoted by as stating that London "well-equipped to deal with traffic from any fixed linl Once main radial routes roads like the South Circular Ibeen improved, the capita • roads will be able to handle" same volume of traffic as Ker roads.
Kent, it will be recalled, the M2, M20, M25 and M either open or under constr tion. Casual readers might tlassume that the GLC will providing equivalent routes London in the not-too-dist! future.
But such readers would badly mistaken. As we z reported as stating in a story tt (coincidentally?) appeared ji below the item being referred the GLC — far from accelerati its road programme — ni looks set to spend at the sai derisory rate on roads in t Eighties as in the Seventh when just one per cent County Hall's average bud.c. went on road improvements.
But even in their muc touted "Roads For Londoi programme of 1977 (costed three times their present budc forecast), the GLC never suc. ested doing more for the Soi. Circular than improving a fi junctions.
Certainly it never propos widening it even to du carriageway standard throuc_ out, let alone to a full motonh as other European cities ha done with their inner by-pass.
So who is kidding who abc London being "well-equippe to cope with traffic?
A. WARREN Secretary Movement For London