(Continued.)

“…. I like to think that the motor vehicle will remain, above all, a valuable auxiliary to the railway, seeking and bringing traffic from the remote areas, and intensifying everywhere the economies of life…. I am convinced that herein lies its lasting role in the future.”

M. A. M. Pourcel, Chief Engineer of the Paris, Lyons and Mediterrancan Railway.

I Terminated my article in the September issue of the Magazine with an analysis of the advantages claimed for motor transport as opposed to transport by rail, and dealt, seriatim, with five of those advantages. There remains to consider advantage No. 6, viz.: “Being a smaller unit, the motor can run a more frequent service than can be run by a steam operated train.” The argument obviously applies to suburban and city traffic, and may be admitted. The answer, of course, from the railway point of view, is electrification.