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The Importance of Equipment
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THE place of equipment in the scheme of commercial motoring is best understood if the dictionary interpretation of the mean, ing of the word be considered and applied, literally. According to that, it means "needful supplies for any service." Thus, in our sense of the word, there is equipment for chassis, for bus and coach service, for haulage, and for bus and coach stations as well as garages. Carried to its logical conclusion, this interpretation compels admission that without equipment none of these services can be efficiently rendered; which is a truism. By judicious selection of the right equipment every branch of commercial vehicle operation can be extended and improved. Care in that selection is, consequently, of great importance.
That being so, it follows that there can be hardly anything which is of more direct interest to the vehicle owner and user than the subject matter of this special issue of The Commercial Motor. It is concerned with equipment for all the purposes just enumerated. The subject is treated in three principal ways. There are, in the first place, articles describing how the operations of the commercial-motor user can be expedited by the more extensive employment of equipment ;there are others showing the economies which result from its use, and there are descriptions of all the latest forms.
The reader is thus advised of the existence of equipment concerning which he may have had no knowledge; he is shown how its use can be turned to his material advantage, and then, by reference to the detailed descriptions, he is put In a position to select that particular make and type of appliance which comes nearest to his own idea of what is requisite.
One aspect of this matter calls for particular attention here. It applies to all kinds of equipment, but more especially, perhaps, to that intended for use in the garage, for maintenance work. Inexperienced fleet operators are apt to defer the purchase of garage equipment on account of cost. That is nearly always false economy. The savings which result from the provision and regular use of a piece of equipment should have first consideration ; it would then be discovered that the cost was small in comparison.
To bring the matter into its proper perspective regard should be had to the end in view— the maintenance of the vehicle on the road. Vquipment promotes efficient work in the garage and 'saves labour, but that is only the lesser part of its utility,. Its chief purpose is to save vehicle time—that is the criterion of its worth.