While the continual menace of a "Red" rising is no longer regarded seriously in England, on account of the strength of the more sober underlying elements of Labour, there are signs of a revolution in the national transport services.
The Automobile Association recently inaugurated a far-reaching scheme for the carriage of goods, as well as passengers, along the great main roads. Increasing numbers of motor-coaches—and the new "charabancs de luce"—have accordingly made their appearance on every highway.
Rut the A, A. scheme is chiefly notable because it aims at the coordination of all existing facilities for the transportation of goods by motor lorry, Business men who support the scheme see in it a means of serious competition with the railways. For railway transport is nowadays notably slow where freight is concerned—thanks to the control of a grandiose Ministry.
The carriage of merchandise by lorry has been in the past—save when carefully planned for dunne the railway strike—a haphazard undertaking, through lack of system. In Georgian days the former road transport was care fully systematized. Unless this were done in the case of the motor lorry, it was realized that the ends of commerce could never be successfully met.
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