TUBES FOR GOODS
SCHEME POE LONDON
UNDEGROUND TRANSPORT
LONDON, 6th October.
Addressing engineers and' transport experts, Sir Charles Allom foreshadowed a horseless London devoid of congestion as the result of the inauguration of a goodsway scheme providing for tfte expenditure of £44,000,000 on eighty, miles of underground electric tubes for the conveyance of goods. The tube would connect nine railway terminals.
■j-.The1 scheme also includes docks, markets, and warehouses. It would reduce road congestion by 60 per cent, and the time of transport by 8Q per cent. Expenditure would be at the rate of £8,000,000 annually for 5i years. Mr. Frederick Erlirnd, the "originator of the scheme, said that the construction would absorb 190,000 people. The permanent stafi ana operatprs would number 50,000.
Sir Bobert Home and General Seely said that if London were to survive, its goods traffic must 'be underground.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 85, 7 October 1932, Page 7
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142TUBES FOR GOODS Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 85, 7 October 1932, Page 7
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