REVIVING THE ROAD
The war has made the railways so busy that the transport trade has had to f?ad new possibilities in the highways, and now a daily motor road service from London to Birmingham has been started. The road service is organised from Birmingham, and a daily journey is made to London and back with goods. Six heavy motor vehicles are used for the service. It seems obvious that, when tho war is over and • motors will be released for business purposes, the great highways will be made more- and more use of for goods traffic, for the high railway rates will probably continue. In the matter of delivery motor transit has the advantage, because cars are not 6hunted to sidings, but go the pace all the way. Delays with motors mean loss. The Post Office to this day runs, the mail coach from London to Brighton. Even before the motor era the Post Office found four horses and a coach better than the railway for the delivery of the midnight mail, but with a motor mail train the highway can always easily hold its own against the railways.
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Evening Star, Issue 16051, 1 March 1916, Page 8
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190REVIVING THE ROAD Evening Star, Issue 16051, 1 March 1916, Page 8
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