MIDLAND ROAD TRANSPORT.
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N RELATION to road transport 1 schemes, for which chambers of commerce and • trade associations have rendered themselves primarily responsible, acting in conjunction with iocal haulage contractors, activities are being redoubled in the Midland area of which Nottingham, Leicester, and Derby are the main centres. A great impetus has been given to arrangements by the project of the Automobile Association for linking up districts throughout the country, The scheme was explained and commented upon in the last issue of The Oommercial Motor.
In regard to few branches of industry has the value of expeditious operations which a co-ordinated system affords been more completely exeniplifled than in the chief Midland textile industries of lace and hosiery production. On account of the comparatively small compass which they 'occupy proportionate to their
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weight there are no classes of merchandise more easily capable of transportation, but the primary, consideration, espeeially in relation to the lace industry, is as to the quickness of communication with Liverpool and others of the chief ports, Particularly in connection with the South, trade, niacin which, despite te ravages of competition in other, directions, Nottingham manufacturers still continue to maintain a firm hold.
The metropolis of lace production would indeed be in a. poor way but for this sustained advantage in relation to its most lucrative branch of export business, and, it beingof the greatest importance on most occasions that rapid transportation should be effected if valuable contracts are not to be lost. the possibility which has been afforded by the new means of getting consignments to the Merzey or elsewhere to catch outgoing steamers, has proved of inestimable advantage to the lace trade.
In bringing cotton supplies from Lancashire to Nottingham and otherpmts of the Midlands recently-organized services have also further demonstrated the value of the altereil processes which.. are being rendered possible by the new t: ansport, to the immense saving of tithe contrasted with dilatory railway plans..
The The matter, as far as Midland manufacturers of textile and other, goods are
• concerned, has long since passed from its inchoate stages, and the support which has been rendered officially to the work by the Nottingham . and Leicester Chambers of Commerce, with cognate bodies, warrants the anticipation of amplification of plans which are operating to 'the great: benefit of business interests in relation to which celerity is an indispensable factor: