The "Bulletin" on the New Motor Tracks in England.

Progress, Volume I, Issue 6, 2 April 1906, Page 148

The " Bulletin " on the New Motor Tracks in England.

" 111 fares the land," etc. England's steel mills are closing rapidly. Its boot factories are being dismantled, and American footgear dominates the market in Northampton itself, once the centre of the world-wide British boot and shoe trade. Its woollen and cotton industries are stationary. Its unemployed problem grows bigger every day,

and men like Lord Rosebery admit they have no remedy. Still, it is a great country, and (whoop ') will shortly have the finest motor roads m the world. Two companies have been formed to build roads specially constructed for motors, one from London to Preston Park, outside Brighton ; and the other through the west of England into Wales. The first road is to cost a million, the second more, and the money was offered several times over before the authorising Bills had been passed by Parliament, The American millionaire and the Jerusalem tourist will rush headlong in their imported cars to view the land which has been fool enough to let them get rich by ruining it. The motor roads will save them hundreds of pounds m tyre money, and thereby help to destroy one of the few industries that are still thriving m England, and it is also fondly hoped that they will save the whizzers the they paid m fines last year for furious travelling. The railroads, which are still mostly owned by Englishmen, will be keenly hit.