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CO—OPERATIVE SOCIETY USES FOR MOTORS.

3rd July 1923, Page 39
3rd July 1923
Page 39
Page 39, 3rd July 1923 — CO—OPERATIVE SOCIETY USES FOR MOTORS.
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Co-operative societies not only use the motor lorry for the transport of goods but they also own motor coaches, many using the seine chassis and carrying goods and paisengers at different parts of the week.

Some societies have fitted up vehicles as travelling shops, and the society at Whalley Bridge. and Buxton has a butcherS' shop which is rivalling the old lock-up butchers' shop which is still a feature of many Derbyshire villages.

Near Oldharri., a society has a travel ling fish shop which is giving the People in out-of-the-way places a chance of getting supplies that they rarely SAW' before-, ' In most eases the Ford one-tormer is employed for these travelling shops. Societies are Dow extending the idea, and arc using motor vehicles to bring their members in the villages to the central stores. At Chesharn, the society has just acquired a Guy chassis of 25 cwt. capacity which has been provided. with a 14-seater saloon body with an enclosed compartment for the driver and two pas serigers at-the frout. The society has a branch at High Wycombe, and between the two places'are 11 miles of the Chiltern Hills. The GuY vehicle is used for official visits to the two places and also for bringing members to the stores on dry goads sale days. At Chirk, in Wales the co-operators have gone a step further and7have arranged for a private motorbus to be reserved for their members three miles Away to be conveyed.free of charge when making their purchases at headquarters.

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