BIG SCHEME
LONDON’S TRAFFIC ALL GOODS UNDERGROUND. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, October 6. Sir Charles Allom, addressing engineers and transport experts, foreshadowed a horseless London, devoid of congestion, as the result of .the, inauguration of the “Goods way. Registered”, scheme. ' , :*» The new scheme is one pi'o.vjiding for an expenditure of forty-four million sterling oil eighty miles of underground electric tubes, for th'e conveyance of goods. It is to connect with nine railway terminals, and also with the docks, markets, and warehouses. It means reducing the l'Qad congestion by sixty per cent, and the time of transport by.eighty per cent. The expenditure would be at the rate of eight million annually for five and a-half years. - M,r Frederick Erland, originator of the scheme, said 1 the construction would absorb 190,0C0 people. The per- ( manent staff of operators would number fifty thousand. Sir Robert Horne and General Seedy isiaid that if London were to survive its goods traffic must be underground,
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1932, Page 5
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161BIG SCHEME Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1932, Page 5
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