CITY FREIGHT GARS

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11654, 19 October 1923, Page 5

CITY FREIGHT GARS

WIDE UTILITY IN AMERICA. SUITABLE FOR WELLINGTON. Reference to the carriage of freight ;bv tramway systems was made by Mr ; M. Cable, chief city electrical engineer, in a report to the City Council last night. He declared that the handling of freight by means of street cars was extensively carried out in and around many American towns. The Mpntreal Street Railway Company operates 60 dump cars for the carriage of building and 1 other material, and he saw loads of gravel, cement, etc., being deposited [ alongside the tracks in different parts | of the city. ■ “I was informed that the .Railway . Company' were able to deliver gravel jat a cost varying from 50 cent 6 to a dollar per yard compared with 1} to two dollars charged for ordinary vehicular haulage,’’ he said. “In Winnipeg l 6aw street freight cars arriving in the centre of the city laden with milk, and at Vancouver I w'as particularly interested in seeing electric locomotives drawing short trains of freight vans through the streets.” “I formed the opinion that, when additional outlying extensions are given effect to, the handling of freight over the tramway system in Wellington Bhould prove more successful than the present service, confined as it is to luggage and parcels.”