THE MOTOR'S MARCH.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVII, Issue 50, 20 December 1910, Page 2

THE MOTOR'S MARCH.

Mr R. W. Sandford, a well-known New South Wales resident, who has just returned from a business tour through the United States of America, givos a remarkable story in the development of the use of the motor car that has taken place in America. Motor vehicles aw running everywhere, he told a Dx'.v Telegraph' reporter. Practically «i*-ry-body has some sort of a car, and in common with the ordinary commercial and touring users, even the ice-cream vendor in certain American cities has got beyond the wheelbarrow or handcart stage that we see him in at Sydney, and ho hawks his wares on a motor. Hawkers who clean and sharpen knives, perambulating bootblacks, nid men who collect the weekly laundry, all use the motor car. In some cities even at funerals the conyential elow l*ack horse is being superseded, the itotor taking its place. Again, the i>o)if* patrol waggons, ranging from'the hto'ly runabout to the big waggonette, are often motor-driven, and are found valuable aids in the bad quarters. On the farms thousands' of motors are in ute for ordinary transport purposes, far* tain figures recently published sbo* that many American farmers have mortgaged their holdings to secure pleasure motors. Mr Sandford says that this * not the case; they simply drew on their surplus on the local banks, and tbe Wall Street magnates had to find the cash. In the. majority of eases the motor ear helped to baud iro the surplus again, lor the fedUtj and, reliability of the modern motor vehicle -enabled the «Ji wms* torn* < si - , (■•/-"■,■ ?-, '-- j,;j v ■■■■