THE MOTOR CAR.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 186, 2 June 1903, Page 4

THE MOTOR CAR.

Mi- Henry Noiuian, in World's Work, prophesies a wonderful future, for the motor car. "In 1902 Great Britain imported motors and parts to the value of £ 1,102,462, and exported only j .£131,481 —a miserable showing, which j will very rapidly increase. The value of the American output cf meter vehicles for 1 902 is officially reckoned at In the same yar France exported motor cars to the'. value .£1,062,040. Two firms manufacturing pneumatic tires in France turned out in 1902 ,£820.000 worth, and each of them has .£BO,OOO worth of good in of agents. Seventy French firms manufacture motor-cars, and their combined output last year was 12,000 cars. The -industry employed 180,000 workmen, earning on an average .£72 a year each. And these are the figures, bear in mind, of an industry in its babyhood. Agriculture will be one of the chief industries to benefit by the coming ievolution. Already a company has been foimed for manufactming an agricultural petrol motor, which has proved its practicability. The influence upon the community will be no less than upon the individual. Our country districts will revive. The old coaching roads and coaching inns will once more be thronged with travellers. We shall know the land we live in—its rurual interests, its beauties, its antiquities. Country residential pioperty will rise in value. The man who has business in the town will no longer be dependent upon a slow and rare service of trains. His first-class carriage will await his will in his own coach-house. Therefore, thousands of the town dwellers of to-day will be the country dwellers of to-morrow. For my own part, lam convinced that 10 years hence there will not be a horse left in the streets of Loudon. . " . lam even inclined to go a step further, and hazard the opinion that the motor will kill the tramway. Why should the community pay T a huge sum per mile for a special roadway for tramcars, and a huge generating station, when self-propelled motor omnibuses, of equal speed, comfort, capacity, and economy, can use the common road, and by their ability ! to be steered not interfere with the rest of the trafSc."