Auto Service rail
For 14 years of railways in the USA have tried to maintain the decrease in passenger revenue (1926: 1043070646 $ 1939: $ 416573621) against the car, bus and plane from the competition. These days, electricity line trains, cheaper fares, fast service, etc., have contributed. But the No. 1-porcupine in the flesh of Railways’ on this page, the car, plug quickly. Last week, is unable to “lick ‘em”, railways decided jine em .
In the twelve terminals * Western roads, in 135 cities, Railway Extension, Inc. Opens a self-service train. Sponsored by the streets (not put up money, but there were terminal for booths and parking spaces, telephone TELEGRAPH & Service), the process of extension has been designed for travellers to leave their cars at home, cake their trips by rail, cars for rent at their destination.
From Chicago to Los Angeles and Fort Worth to Seattle, the new service prices are the same: a base of 8 cents per kilometre from 10 mph at least one sliding scale of increased performance with the player of any 6 ½ cents - a-miles for a period of at least 1000 miles per week, gas, oil, maintenance and insurance included. Automotive: Five persons, Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Hudson and Studebaker limousines. Telegrams to reserve cars are free and precautions can be taken against supplement, car rentals credit card.
Author, president and Top Dog of Railway Extension is a Husky, happy-go-lucky, talkative car dealer named Ed O’Shea. Überdrüssig disaffection potential clients, arrived at his Lincoln, Neb. Agency next door bus depot near the station and wonder if it is to rent a car for a few hours, distributors O’Shea prepared Railway Extension, he railways. Operates currently its own agency cars (500) in about 35 cities, has contracts with local drive-yourself in other agencies.
We should not exceed about 30 railways is to put in his own car train service last week through a hook-up with local drive-yourself agencies in 55 cities. Their rate of discount for passengers on the train only: $ 3 per day plus 5 cents a miles ($ 4 per day, 6 cents a mile New York City). Free taxi to the Agency are included in the price. Hope for his plan (and for Railway Extension) came by the experience of New Haven, the pioneer of the idea, to a limited extent in the year 1938, he found some 50 passengers per month in nine cities of New England.
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