LONDON’S HORSES
USE FOR REFUSE COLLECTION.
'J’HOUGH the number of horse vehicles in the London metropolitan area fell from 210,000 in 1924 to 81,000 in 1933, it is an astonishing fact that the City of London Corporation still employs horses for 80 per cent, of the vehicles engaged in the collection of refuse in its area.
However, old methods are giving place to new, and many of the leading municipalities throughout Britain have adopted mechanical methods of transport. The famous horses of James Buchanan and Company, the whisky distillers, which have been conspicuous in the streets of London for more than 40 years in the firm’s delivery vans, are being displaced by motor vehicles. Increasing traffic congestion has made their retention impossible, and in future a fleet of motor vehicles, run on contract for the firm, will replace the familiar horse-drawn type with their drivers and vanmen wearing top hats and coats of ancient coaching cut.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2669, 13 September 1937, Page 6
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156LONDON’S HORSES Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 47, Issue 2669, 13 September 1937, Page 6
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