BAN LIFTED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 24, 14 November 1944, Page 7

BAN LIFTED

CARS NOW ALLOWED IN

BERMUDA

Long after the rest of the world had welcomed the arrival of motor vehicles the Canton of Orisons- in Switzerland 'prohibited their use. One of its magnates stated some twenty years ago that, the refusal was the outcome of a scarcity of fodder and the dread lest their scanty liayfields should be ruined by dust as they could not afford tar for their roads. But eventually Grisons permitted residents to own cars, and at last opened its narrow roads, to tourists and to motor cycles. That left Burmuda as the one civilised place where no cars wer-c allowed. But even Bermuda lias yieuled by easy stages. First, ban was lifted in respect of fire engines s ambulances and—garbage trucks. In 1939 the. Governor resigned because he was refused permission to import his personal car. Then the U.S.A. took over the island as a Avar base, and this year the Assembly has gone the whole hog—private ears, taxicabs, and motor cycles are thanks to familiarity with the Scivice vehicles of the American forces.