ROAD TRANSPORT IN INDIA.
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Road transport is rapidly extending in the principal trade centres of India, and motor lorries are now gradually superseding the archaic bullock cart in the transport of goods between docks and warehouses in Calcutta and Bombay. Several transport companies have been formed within the past two years, and one of these Calcutta concerns has recently been running a geode service between Calcutta and the colliery dis
trict.. The postal authorities also are employing motorvans and lorries for city c28 delivery and for the heavy hauls up to the various hill stations in Kashmir and elsewhere where railway facilities do not exist.
Motor omnibuses have, so far, made very little headway in the ports, where excellent tramway services exist, but there is an extending network of such services round Delhi and in one or two other centres in Northern India. The advantages of road transport, for the conveyance both of passengers and goods lathe not yet been sufficiently realised in
India, but there is little doubt that within the next few years there will be a very great advance made, and the present deterioration in the railway services,
and shortage of coal tend to expedite this. The demand for motor vehicles of all kinds, from the light 1 ton truck to the 5 ton lorry will be very great. British makers are well represented in the heavier categories, but find American competition very acute in the lighter and cheaper types of vehicles.