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CRAVING FOR SPEED.

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CRAVING FOR SPEED. It was time the public craving for speed ceased, said Sir Charles Scoiter in moving the adoption of the report at th9 half-yearly meet- ing of the London and South Western Railway. So far as that company was concerned, there would be no racing. He referred at some length to the Salisbury disaster, and said that for some reason, which could never be ascertained, the driver of the ill-fated train ran through Salis- bury at more than 60 miles per hour, and at that speed disaster was inevitable. For many years S.W. had been remarkably free from serious accidents. He found that whereas 155 persons were killed in the streets of London in 1904, the company had carried 1,220,000,000 passengers-a number about equal to the estimated population of the world—from January 1, 1889, to June 30, 1906, and during the whole of that period only one passenger met with his death through accident to the train by which he was travelling. Sir Charles also drew attention to the competition the rail- way was having from motor-oars. During the last Ascot week 420 cars were driven to the meeting on the Tuesday, 441 on the Wednesday, 747 on the Thursday, and 404 on the Friday. There was no doubt a large proportion of these passengers would have travelled first-class by their line. They had to face the fact that first- class traffic Would show a decrease until the public were tired of motor-cars, and again took to the railways.

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