Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-16 | Page 26 | Autos Once Barred on English Highways

1 ! Autos Once Barred on English Highways The automobile, which history presents pre-sents as the father of the railway locomotive, lo-comotive, was legislated off the roads of England In 1830. Its wheels were breaking up the highways. The situation is quite different today. to-day. Its wheels aro building up the highways making hard roads of the typo that will .endure for many gen-erations. gen-erations. Tho passenger car came and the farmer desired good roads as an aid In breaking down his social isolation. Finally1, now that tho freight truck and the express truck are coming into their own, the farmer, the business man. and tho ultimate consumer are demanding good roads In many sections sec-tions of the country as a means of breaking down tho last economic transportation barrier between producer pro-ducer and consumer.