Motor Road Transport For Commercial Purposes
(Liquid Fuel, Steam, Electricity)

CHAPTER III THE SCOPE OF THE MOTOR IN COUNTRY DISTRICTS The scope of the motor to-day may be said to be almost unlimited : for there are few trades which do not require rapid and efficient means of despatch and delivery, and in which mechanical haulage cannot be employed with advantage. It is not possible in this book even to mention all the branches of trade in which there are still openings for the inauguration and development of motor traction, but no work on the subject could be considered at all complete without a brief reference to the broad and fertile field which exists for the motor to-day in the linking up of outlying districts with their centres, to the vast benefit of national life, both. from the individual and the collective point of view. If we are ever going to approach the desired end of being a self-supplying country, or at least to achieve this to any appreciable extent, it is essential that this much needed “ linking up ” in country districts should be begun as soon as possible. Motor Delivery Contractor’s Opportunity. Country districts all over the British Isles are in crying need of quick, reliable, and mobile means of transportation, and there is a wide area of operation for the enterprising motor delivery contractor, whether he is able to start in a comparatively small way only, or with a fleet of motor vans or lorries. To cite one example, the farmer is a man who is constantly requiring rapid and reliable means of transport, and many find that without it he cannot 19