CANAL TRANSPORT
UIMEHOUSE TO JIIR MIN’ GUAM
MOTOR BOATS TO REPLACE BARGES.
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Si.pt. go,
At a cost of about £I,IM>.IX)O, the Grand Union Canal Co. is promot ng a scheme for the gradual transformation of the method of transport on their 240 miles of waterways from Uimehouse to Birmingham, substituting canal motor beats for barges drawn by horses on a tor,'path. The scheme will involve the ultimate disappearance of 500 canal boatmen, who, with their families, live on the barges, their, places being take) by motor boat pilots with homes o land. .
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 3
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96CANAL TRANSPORT Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11326, 2 October 1930, Page 3
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