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Eire Passenger Transport Sets a High Standard

3rd June 1949, Page 25
3rd June 1949
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

THE remark, "One hears of those who say that Irish

transport has always been more sportive than transportive," made in your issue dated April 22, indicates that the average Briton's ideas about Irish transport are as fantastic as ever. This is strange, for thousands of them have visited Ireland in the past two or three years and they have all been pleasantly surprised by the advanced design of Irish vehicles; most of which are built on British chassis. Yet we have many people in Great Britain who are prepared to believe that the sound of a bus ot a truck has never disturbed the streets of many Irish towns.

This fantastic belief is due, I think, to the fact that the British people are never told enough about Ireland. Take "The Commercial Motor," which is one of the world's most influential technical journals; in 1948 you published articles by excellent writers about road transport in Germany and Holland; and in 1949 you have given us very interesting information about such activities in France and Spain. But Ireland, which is one of the British manufacturers' best customers, never gets a look in In 1948 you published four Irish transport picturesa bus and a cattle truck for the then N.I.R.T.B., a bus for the L.S.R., and another for Guinness's. In the case of the L.S.R. bus, you neglected to mention that the bodies for this and similar vehicles were sent to publin for completion. Your news items were similarly scrappY—small paragraphs were devoted to important developments. When the Minister for Industry and Commerce announced that transport legislation was to be introduced, your leader writer attacked a plan which is

destined -to make Irish transport completely selfsupporting again—a plan devised by the best brains in

the Irish and British transport industries, road and rail.

Your attack on this plan was uncalled for, and you would be doing something greater if you published an article or two about Irish transport on the lines of the fine articles written by Mr. Dunbar in recent issues of your journal. Why not give us a fair deal? Incidentally, Irish transport chiefs are not "sportive" enough (or foolish enough) to use bus chassis as founda tions for luxury horseboxes when decent, hard-working men and women are crying out for transport.

Irish road transport sets high standards in safety and efficiency, whilst Irish bus builders are maintaining a reputation established nearly 75 years ago by the Dublin tram builders.

Drumcondra, MICHAEL CORCORAN.

Dublin.

[It so happens that your letter arrived just as we had gone to press with the first instalment of a comprehensive article on transport in Eire, for our issue dated May 27, the concluding instalment of which will be found this week. it was written after a visit to Eire by a member of our staff. As regards only small paraggaphs being devoted to important developments there, this has, unfortunately, been necessitated by the extreme shortage of paper However, we accept your rebuke, and will endeavour to be more generous to you in [uture.—En.]

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