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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 883, 25 August 1910, Page 2

Mr Samuel Hordern, who returned to Sydney last week from a visit to England, has something to say concerning motors in business, and the doomed horse. He drew a picture of motor ’buses, taxicabs, and motor vans plying about in all directions, and at a pace that would enable a Sydney traffic constable to fill his book with names and keep a magistrate busy for a whole year. If there happens to be a policeman on a crossing, said Mr Hordern, drivers of vehicles will go slowly ; but, if the warning hand of the law is not there, there is a mad rush over the crossing, and woe betide any ignorant person who has been used to leisurely walking from one side of the street to the other. The most important effect of the motor car, however, noted by the Australian is the revolutionising of business by motor traffic, as far as their delivery sections are concerned. The great London houses deliver daily as tar as Brighton, over fifty miles away, and as Mr Hordern says, “they think nothing of it.’ 1 This, of course, portends the aggrandisement of the big central distributing agencies at the expense of the smaller ones, and it means more and more concentration of business in cities, with the struggle of the small local man outside, whose business is a matter of locality, getting harder and harder. If business is to be revolutionised by the motor car, therefore it is safe to predict that the people as a whole will benefit.