ABSTRACT
Between 1900 and 1914 considerable progress had been made by mechanical road transport, but this was chiefly in the direction of passenger vehicles. The rapid development of the various forms of road transport-motor bus, motor coach and motor lorry-was at first somewhat artificial. With the bursting of the short-lived trade boom that followed the Armistice, the setting in of the prolonged trade depression, as it is natural to expect, had severe reactions on road transport, and many had to give up business. The freight exchange or road transport clearing house, as the name indicates, is simply an organization designed to provide return loads where possible, and otherwise co-ordinate the work of various road transport concerns. Several companies have been launched to provide clearing house facilities on commercial lines, while certain energetic Chambers of Commerce have made provisions to co-ordinate road transport work for their members in their own district.
