The Motor Stand, Murree Hill

The Motor Stand, Murree Hill

c. 1928
14.00x
13.80cm

Motor travel made accessing hill stations much easier; note the the 1920s eras car and smaller buses in this image on the road from Rawalpindi to Murree (the transportation company advertised on the sign is the "Simla Motor Service"). The trip into the hills, which could take a day or two in a horse-drawn cart, was now a matter of hours once roads were properly paved. In 2011 a better highway was completed, which shortened the time it takes to get to Murree but also has led to even more visitors, destroying some of the charm of visiting this once lovely outpost some seven thousand feet high.

Likely the same location two decades earlier as a tonga stand.