Municipal Motors.

Progress, Volume XI, Issue 12, 1 August 1916, Page 704

Municipal Motors.

In referring to municipal motors we are for the moment not concerned with passenger carrying vehicles. These may safely be left for the present, for,their time is surely coming after the return of peace conditions.

As mechanical units nothing can be said against the-efficiency of motors generally in the fact of their war performances, and the adoption of motors for passenger traffic will be fought out eventually, not on the units of the machines themselves, but on the basis of the distance it will be possible to convey passengers profitably for a penny fare. Municipalities' have, however, in our opinion been unwarrantably slow in availing themselves of the motor possibilities offering for the efficient carrying out of eitv work. We still have the old road sweeping machines and the horse drawn water waggons, while the one horse garbage carts toddle slowly from door to door taking their unlimited time to poison the atmosphere with their vile odours.

All these duties and many others can be better and more cheaply done by motor, and although the present is not perhaps an opportune time to purchase, seeing that we all desire to buy only British made goods, it is certainly the duty of every councillor and municipal officer to watch the development of these mechanical aids to city cleanliness and efficiency that. is taking place in oversea cities, against the time when it will be possible to bring our municipal departments somewhere into line with

modern progress.