RAILWAYS KEEP 13000 HORSES
CHEAPER THAN MOTORS.
LONDON, November 11
The cartage strength of four main British railways in 1927 consisted of 2,823 motors and 18,477 horses. At the beginning of this year the motors numbered 9,075 and the horses 13,125. These figures were given bj r Mr. H. W. Faircloth, of the L.M.S. Raihvay, in a paper he read yesterday at the Commercial Motor Transport Exhibition, Earl’s Court. He said that he did not think that during the next 10 years there would be much change in the ratio of motors to horses.
“it has been a standard joke at these gatherings,” he remarked, “to say that the raihvay companies require a fourton motor with the initial'cost of a, one-ton Ford and the running costs of a, motor cycle. Actually that is verj r nearly the position which will have to obtain if the bulk of our existing horse strength is to be displaced.”
Mr. Faircloth declared that experience had shown that for journeys up to two miles from a station horse cartage was still cheaper than motor vans.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 31 December 1937, Page 11
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