Authentic Science Fiction Monthly, No. 56 — page 55: what you’re looking at

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An expert’s views on— Transport of Tomorrow IVILISATION depends not C only upon possessing the means to make things, but also the means to move them. The history of civilisation might, indeed, be described as the history of transport. This will be even more factories, mines and offices. The future of transport is of especial interest to Britain. What is it likely to be? LAND The future of land transport is virtually the future true tomorrow, by of roads. Roads are although the present still handicapped by century has already Professor the dimensional seen advances in limitations and men- transport thatequal A, Mi, LOW tal “climate” of the all the progress horse-drawn vehicle. made in every pre- D.Sc., Ph.D. A far-seeing nation ceding century. The exchange of goods between countries has been revolutionised, and transport has made possible the exist- ence of industrial Britain; all our skill and enterprise in industry would have been. wasted if ships, aeroplanes, trains and motor vehicles did not bring to us and distribute vast quantities of food. The large manufactur- ing centres would cease to have life if transport did not allow the daily migration of millions from their homes to might have decided, when the motor car made its appearance, to leave the horse vehicle roads to horses and build motor roads anew, as it built rail-roads; the idea of running railways alongside the existing coach roads was rightly never con- sidered. Safe and efficient road transport is largely a matter of constructing roads designed for this purpose and of realis- ing that as many of our present roads were primarily designed for traffic that moved at * From “I’ts Bound to happen” (Burke). 54 Comiclooks.conn