BOOK REVIEW

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 15, 16 October 1945, Page 6

BOOK REVIEW

DRIVE FOR FREEDOM

Bv Charles Graves

For more than five years the British Motor Industry, one of our most virile and productive undertakings lias triumphed and expanded behind thick veils, of secrecjv. It is important for our Industrial prestige that the creditable facts should be made known to the public—hence this book. In the pages that follow you learn how the men and women of the Motor industry in their hundreds of thousands have turned out every conceivable weapon of war for the

three Fighting while still maintaining an ever increasing output of motor vehicles for essential purposes. But lest you have, the impression from these introductoW remarks that all this effort was "plain sailing" it seems desirable to state that quite a hefty skein of "red tape" comes into the narrative to give piquancy to the story and a dash of adventure of the experiences of those who had to unravel it. I

Alter reading "Drive For Freedom" those, of you who are motorists will have pardonable pride in the. war effort of an industry which your patronage has so largely helped to create. Those of you who are not motorists cannot, fail to concede that had it not been for the existence. of a motoring public Avhich led to the development of a vast Motor Britain would have been deprived of her factility to re-arm with the speed Avhich characterised her energies after Dunkirk. That same zeal permeates the entire industry and will continue as long as the democratic way of life is challenged b3 r war. The. book is obtainable at C. S. Armstrong's Stationers, Whakatane ' ' i