Untrue Criticism of British Heavy Vehicles
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SOM E hits at foolish and untrue statements by a Member of Parliament were made by Mr. H. D. Simmons, of the S.M.M.T., in a recent address to
the Chatham F'•otary Club.
He said that in an article in one of our leading newspapers, a Government back bencher claimed that our military transport did not put up a performance comparable with the vehicles sent from
Amprica. This at a time when the
President of the Board of Trade was urging the motor industry to get busy with exports. The speaker assured his listeners that during the war British heavy road transport left nothing to be desired—in fact, the superiority of our vehicles was so overwhelming that in the Western Desert, Rommel issued strict orders that only captured British trucks were to be used, as German vehicles could not make the grade.
It would appear, continued Mr. Simmons, that we must listen to the opinion of our late enemy to secure a true assessment of the capabilities of mechanical road transport designed and built in this country.
He added that commercial vehicles produced by the British motor-vehicle industry are not surpassed in service and long life by any similar vehicles in the world.