Diesel Road Trains Are Not For N.Z.
Because of the very high class highways that are required, their cost, difficulty of purchase’ and the large amount of traffic that must be available to warrant their use diesel road trains are not economically possible to operate in New Zealand the Opotiki Chamber of Commerce has been informed by the Minister of Works, Mr Semple. Recently the chamber had asked the Minister of the possibility of using such transport between Taneatua and Gisborne to supplement the present systems. Even on the best of New Zealand roads such vehicles would be difficult to run but on the Gisborne-Taneatua highway they would be almost impossible to operate at the present time.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 32, 31 August 1949, Page 5
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117Diesel Road Trains Are Not For N.Z. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 32, 31 August 1949, Page 5
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