ENGLAND’S WATERWAYS
NEW METHOD OF TRANSPORT. MOTOR BOATS TO BE USED. - (British Official Wireless,} (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, September SO. At a coat of about £1,000,000, the Grand Union Canal Company is promoting a scheme for the gradual transformation of the method of transport on its 240 miles of waterways from Limehouse to Birmingham, substituting canal motor boats for the barges drawn by horses on the towpath. The scheme will involve tho ultimate disappearance of 800 canal boatmen, who, with their families, live on the barges, their places being taken by motor boat pilots, with their homes on land.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21146, 2 October 1930, Page 10
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102ENGLAND’S WATERWAYS Otago Daily Times, Issue 21146, 2 October 1930, Page 10
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