Note 167 — Chapter VII · AUTOMOTIVE TRANSPORTATION
Reading edition
See “The Motor Bus Field as a Market for Trucks,” Automotive Industries, September 29, 1921.
[168] One method of estimating cost of automobile riding, for a machine costing originally $1000, which having a life of 30,000 miles is then worth for scrap $100, may be given thus:
Original cost expressed in cents per mile (1000-100)10030,000 3.0
Cost of repairs, estimated, 0.5
Gasoline and oil 2.5
Tires 1.5
Garage - 1.5
Interest
Taxes
Insurance
License
9.0
The cost is about 9 cents per car mile. If an average of two passengers ride that is 41⁄2 cents per passenger mile. The above is merely an illustration and cannot be applied generally.
[169] See Bulletin 770, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Markets, “Motor Transportation for Rural Districts,” Also Bulletin 931.
[170] “A Jitney Guide to the Santa Fé Trail,” Saturday Evening Post, June 10, 1922.
[171] The statute of Winchester enacted during the reign of Edward I, of England, provided “that highways leading from one market town to another shall be enlarged, where woods, hedges or dykes be, so that there be neither dyke, tree nor bush, whereby a man may lurk to do hurt, within two hundred foot on the one side and two hundred foot on the other side of the way.”
[172] Reprinted by permission from The Saturday Evening Post, Copyright 1922, by the Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa.