A HORSELESS TOWN
YEOVIL’S DISTINCTION. . Is there a horseless town in the British Isles? Yeovil, in Somerset, can almost claim that distinction, for, as a leading tradesmen put it, “there are not sufficient horses in Yeovil to provide a pair of blacks or even browns for a funeral —we have to use motor hearses. Apart from the corporation’s horses I do not suppose there are half a dozen now owned in the town.” It is a fact that where once horses were to be seen in large numbers motor vehicles now abound. Contractors and tradesmen do all their work by motor vehicles, and even the local brewery has reduced its horse transport to a minimum. When a horse is seen in Yeovil it is generally attached to a farmer’s cart or trap from one of the surrounding villages, and should it be a particularly fine animal it is apt to excite comment among the residents. Bedford, it will be recalled, claims to be the town with the greatest number of bicycles.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 September 1927, Page 11
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171A HORSELESS TOWN Greymouth Evening Star, 24 September 1927, Page 11
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