Within this decade there were a few different kinds of transportation, however most of it depended on the distance the person was travelling.
For the shorter distances a person would walk or ride a bicycle. A short distance in these days however was a lot longer than ours in the recent times. they would walk 3 to 5 miles; though this would also depend on age and fitness of the individual.
Travelling short distances on a bike was an expensive luxury - they were very costly to buy.
For longer distances many people still were using horse drawn carriages however within this decade motorised vehicles such as cars and buses were appearing.
The wealthy were the only ones who could afford their own car though.
for very long distances such as traveling from say the Leeds area to London then there was the train. This was obviously the fastest and most direct way of getting around.
Some smaller areas of England also had trains to get round the villages or even trams in cities.
Boats were used to go abroad.
(titanic crashed over this decade)
REFERENCES
- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110323121444AAVqobj
- http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1910to1919.html
- www.youtube.com
- David J. Mrozek (2008). Railroad Depots of Michigan, 1910 - 1920. USA: Arcadia Publishing. p7-31.
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VIDEO
This is a video i found on youtube.com - watch!
crazy cars 1910 - 1920
Reflection of research
Again like the Car types page on my blog, i have used a lot of websites rather than books however in this case i found it slightly harder to find books exactly on what i needed. Luckily this page wasn't needed as much as others because of the narrowing of my research idea. However looking back maybe i should have gone to some more different sources just to make my work a little more substantial.
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