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Telephone 1967-8
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MOTOR TRANSPORT
WHAT THE RAILWAY STRIXE HAS SHOWN.
Telephone 1967-8
1909 the figures were: Cars 74,746, crease in Lancashire and Yorkshire motor-cycles 75,000, heavy vehicles alone during the war period must 15,181: The 1912-census marks the amount to well over 25,000 vehicles.. beginning of the boom in cars and What the business world 'discover- cycles, but, curiously enough, a set- ed in 1915 and 1916 the public is now The extent to which motor trans-back in the commercial type. The realising. Anything like a reliable port has grown, as so swiftly, even figures then were: Cars 175,247, census of motor vehicles would now amazingly, demonstrated recently motor-cycles 132,245, commercial be unusually interesting, especially machines 12,627 In the following’if, on the commercial' side, it was a is до surprise to those who have been in touch with the year, the last for which say fairly well classified one. It would show movement. To them this demon-reliable figures are available, the how motor transport can, on the stration is peculiarly gratifying, alto-Aumbers were as follows: Cars one hand, compete with the railway gether apart from the merits of the dustrial vehicles 18,005. It will be and on the other, has all but busted 227,907, motor-cycles 179,926, in in all but long-distance express traffic, dispute, for it sets the seal on years
seen from these statistics how the horse for short-distance haulage.
of hard pioneer work. It is no light thoroughly obscured the commercial Because of this it has tended to achievement that a country which appeared definitely to have aban-vehicle was by thecar and the specialise in itself, according to the doned the road in favour of rail motor-cycle,
kind of work required of it. We
transport
communication should be so quick. On the other hand, business firms have the steamers, whose usefulness ly and efficiently served when which had adopted the new transport has been extended since their adop the railways were suddenly closed began to see their outlay returning tion of rubber tyres, the heavy petrol down with this new
along more than one channel. It lorries, from the 6tonners. down to service. All the arguments that was found that a machine could not the 2-tonners, and the lighter vans, have been advanced in favour of it only do the work of many horses, from 30cwt, type to the half-tonner, have been driven home to the head. but could do it day after day. There and finally the electric vehicle, The question of running costs may was no laying up for rest after a with a great future for town work. be an exception, but that is only long journey, the area of delivery And, moreover, thanks to the war, we because the crists on the railways over cross-country to places to which have thousands of capable drivers bas set up abnormal conditions, and there was no direct railway com- who before their army experiences obviously any comparison in the pre-munication was widened, and there had perhaps never seen under the sent circumstances between the run. was a great saving it time and in bonnet of a motor; certainly they ning costs of road and rail transport Cost of labour in the fact that the would set have been able to explain would be unfair... The great thing handling of goods was reduced to the mysteries stowed away there. ¡ is that this alternative service, the minimum--the loading at the And whatever the outcome, of the 13 here, and is far
outgoing end and the unloading at present dispute, nelther the vast
number of machines nor these men' abundant and more efficient than the delivery end. the general public dreamed of. It
are going to be unwanted in the
more
A WAR DEMAND.
is more than passible that the rail- These things, and many others, future. Motor road transport has waymen themselves did not realise received emphasis when the war proved itself.
its capabilities. They have certainly came, Very soon the industries of
the hilt,
4-
TROUBLES
PINKETTES
8. "VICTORIA
given it its first real opportunity to the country found the railways so ONE OF WOMAN S WORST justify itself, and in no more than congested with the movement of war three days it has justified itself up to material and of troops that neither
delivery nor the collection of their is easily and promptly overcome with A SLOW GROWTH,
goods could be counted upon. Their the aid of Pinkettes. They are dainty, The war gave the commercial horses
tiny, yet thoroughly efficient. commandeered, and were motor vehicle its first fillip. Before, so also were their motor vehicles. that time it was only slowly making Those who had had experience of progress. It had been obscured by the facilities that the motor vehicle the development of the private car, gave were prompt to replace as far gently cleanse the system, bus dispell- and there were few who realised as possible the machines that the ing bilious headaches, purifying the that, although the private car had a Government had taken. Others per breath, clearing the skin and aiding the great future, the heavy vehicle, force had to follow their example the vial post free from the Dr. Williams' appetite. Of all chemista, also 60 cents under which title is classified all and buy what they could and when Medicine Co., 86 Szechuan Road, Shang- commercial types, had a greater they could, for by this time industry, hai. and wider field of usefulness to fill, especially in the textile areas of Lan: It was with the greatest difficulty cashire and Yorkshire, was booming that industry could be made to see under war orders, and because of that the motor vehicle, could serve it the highly specialised pr cesses. of well and efficiently. The railway manufacture in these areas, road For Manila, Handakan, Thursday and the horse held the field, and transport was in sharp demand. down to 1908, by which time the Within a few months traffic had motor had been in existence some flowed back to the roads, and in fifteen years, the commercial vehicles turn those who had held out) numbered no more than 12,104, against motor transport-discovered This steamer has magnificent first class
The figures of the different types for themselves how, with a mobile of motor machines registered for transport medium of this character that and succeeding years illustrate at their command, facilities for trade more than anything else the slow were not only widened but cheapen- growth of commercial mechanical ed. It led to a tremendous growth No. transport; and indicatey also the of motor transport.. What that deadweight of prejudice that had to growth is as expressed in figures be moved. In 1908 private care cannot be said with any certainty. numbered 71,381, motor cycles since there is no official census, but 65,023 and trade machines, as it has been estimated, admittedly on already mentioned, only 12,104 In not too certain a basis, that the in-
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hence on or about the 1st December.
socommodation and is fitted
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I fort and long service, so much economy in petrol and you own a Maxwell, you will wonder how so much-com-
tyres, so much, beauty, can be built into this low priced Motor Car.
The answer is simple.. 300,000 Maxwell Cars have been built upon the original simple chassis design without fanda mental changes.
That is why the Maxwell owner knows he can expect his car to go on and on after other cars have long ceased to run-why he has come to expect very few of the troubles.. and expenses that many motorists experience. And his expecta- tions are fully realized in the present Maxwell Car.
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OF DETROIT KICH.
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