AGE OF THE MOTOR.
RIVAL TO THE RAILWAYS.
EFFECTS OF COMPETITION*
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 7.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. April 15. Mr. Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern Railways Company, gave an address to tho American Society of Civil Engineers, at Kansas City, Missouri. He said the importance of the motor-car industry was so great that tho railways gained more from the freight traffic it created than they lost from the freight and passenger traffic it took away. Tho controllers of tho railways must realise that buses and trucks were as essential as railways in certain communities and under certain conditions, because each unit of transportation was small and cheaper to operate. Buses could give more frequent services that trains. There were about 2,500,000 motortrucks in the United State, of which many were used by the railways to assemble freight instead of switch engines, and instead of local freight trains for short distance haulage.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19303, 16 April 1926, Page 11
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157AGE OF THE MOTOR. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19303, 16 April 1926, Page 11
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