Why No Show ?
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It has been definitely deckled that there will be no commercial motor vehicle show,this year. It is felt that an improvement in existing circumstances is not likely to occur by the autumn, and therefore that a show would nothe a business proposition.
But there is the other view, which is held by young and enterprising concerns, that such a decision is a great mistake. H this country were poor and .without oesources or credit, one could understand one industry alter another becoming disheartened, but sitting back with folded arnis is not worthy of the British nation. Mechanical road eratissxne is in its infancy : it is just commencing to make deep inroads into the monopoly held by the railways, and there is much to be done in the development of the type of vehicle which can transport large . loads without. entailing road injury. 1,s6. give up a means of encouraging the placing of orders, therefore, seems wrecog to us, and likely to carry a grave risk. Whatswe fear is the loss of that lead—nay, let us say " hold "—which the British commercial motor vehicle possesses all over the world. Our foreign rivals will not fail to grasp the opportunity wnhich Rakish quiescence will give them in the autumn. Let it not be forgotten that the first opportunity given to this country to demonstrate its position in the motor world was when the French automobile industry decided not, to hold its annual show.