Show i I. I jS Resume of Transportation History by Goodrich Co Go tl 1 I fit 1 n r 1 it r l 1 I 4 L t I it 1 I it j f r f i 41 7 14 i t T TRANSPORTATION ON ti WL GC CC o of MATERIALS z r FA M 1 rAND AND RURAL BURAL AND IN Gli CITIES IE fc F r A EXPRESS 5 AND INDUSTRIAL CENTERS Bureau bushes s1 es Int In- In 1 t te esting tin ting Haulage Data of tha Ages es est V t T mod of highway Y tT transportation tion aon Ion from trout the tha days of ancient EGYpt When brIcks brick B mado of mud from the Nile Nil were transported b by manpower man man- power and through th the subsequent t ps furnished by beast and vehicle ro ra re being belDI actually In today Practically ev every ry means mean of ot highway has baa h had d It Its greatest cx- cx 3 anion ex-anion analo and efficiency developed In inthe tho the United States according to tho the Travel gavel Transport t bureau of ot the tho B B. B F. F Oo Goodrich leh Rubber company In review review- Ing the Important stops in the lon ton of ot carrying over the roadways I the bureau points out the tho dominant position tow held by motor vehicles and ond the tho vest vast possibilities of future futuro Ja Xa the day before tt the discovery of ot America the aborigines were served by transportation The only two tiro me mediums lums of or land traffic were the tho pack doS and the tho llama This half haIr of or ortho tho habitable globo globe had not 4 0 j years ears ago 40 a n horse ox cow mule burro or sheep to its Ita name the dog was the thc only domestic animal It possessed The Tho Spanish Introduction of or tho the horse mule burro and ox to America marked markul tho longest stride ever Cl taken cn in so BO short a n time In the arts of oC to tation The first great commercial highway In America and for three cent centuries rles tho the most Important was vas the calzada or shod mulo mule path from Vera Vcra Cruz Crux to the CSt City of ot Mexico re This road load first laid out b by Cortez in 15 1522 wets a L more or less stone stono paved pa highway from the Die seaboard to tho the capital of oC Mexico As late Ilta as 1824 this road rond boro bore a single train pack of ot 1000 mules loaded with silver each silver each mule carrying 2000 At Atthe Atthe the height of oC Its activity this trail carried more moro than tons a year year year- or S Sometime during the seventeenth se JJ century wheeled vehicles worn Wore first used In America The first one never nc had hod a nail or a scrap of oC iron about it Its wheels axle bod body and tongue were made of or wood and Its shrieking I could be bo heard hearda a mile mUe down clown the road Such crudo crude conveyances were ere In common common common com com- mon us use In the remoter parts of or orex Mexico Mex Mex- ico leo leons as ns late as QS fifty years cars ago Americas America's s 's first v vehicle I transports tion was established In lS by Solo Solomon Solomon mon Smith and 2nd James Moore of or Burlington Burlington Bur Bur- lington lInon N J J. J and consisted of or horse- horse drawn n o wagons I mow Slowly the thc people began hegan to grasp the meaning of oC wagon transportation tIon and its i relation elation to them and the coun oun tr try During tho eighteenth century I and up until twenty five tl e years ago every manner of or wheeled vehicle took tho the highway for conveyance con duty Va Wagons ons a and 11 1 carts proved powerful i auxiliaries to steam rall a railways whose development d started with Peter Coopers Cooper's Coop- Coop ors ers Tom Thumb the first American Ameri Amerl can locomotive c which made Its Its trIal trip in isor Tho The era crl of or automobiles an and motor trucks marked m the n next Important s step cp In the march of or highway transportation lion tion pro progress rC's It Is Interesting In III this connection to note that the passenger I Icar car Is really o s descendant of ot tu the motor truck for Cor the first self propelled highway highway high high- way wa vehicles were planned and used for Cor haulage purposes and their use for forI passenger service was not at first se seriously seriously se- se considered I It was destined that war was to prove thu tho prowess of or truck and nd highway highway high high- way transportation for for years after the Cu enot artillery wagon was vas conceived ed trucks 3 and taxicabs CurI fur fur- I tho the unending in stream of or French soldiers needed to stem stela th the German GermanI I offensive o toward Paris n at t tho the battle I I of tho the Marne And nd during luring tho the Mouse Mouse- Argonne offensive of or General Pershing I that victoriously ended tho world conflict con con- filet for Cot the allies the long IonS efficient I line lInc of oC motor truck communication o othe or of orthe the Americans ns i furnished an ruble factor facto l' l In the downfall of or German Germany Ger Ger- man many The world war wl i probably accomplished accomplished more mor to advance the cause caus of or highway tran transportation than would otherwise o ha transpired In twenty twenty- o fl years ears |