A £1,000 car today is only the same vehicle as cost £400 before the war, and there are many cars of quite small horsepower.
For cars the annual rate was £1 per horsepower with a minimum of £6.
This has a large horsepower and is a light and small engine.
Why cannot some of that money be switched to a proper decommissioning scheme, taking into account the problems of horsepower and all the other problems?
The measurements will still have to be undertaken by reference to oxen rather than horsepower.
There is, of course, no question of going back to the discredited horsepower system.
The running costs are estimated in such a reactor at about ¼ d. per shaft horsepower hour.
Without the horsepower of their wagons the cowboys will be unable to operate.
