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AT the annual joint meeting of engineering and technical societies organized by the Institution of Automobile Engineers and held on March 10 at the Institution of Civil Engineers, three short papers wore read on “Comfort in Travel”. The first paper was on road travel by S. Garcke, the second on rail travel by Lord Stamp, and the third on air travel by Capt. E. W. Porcival. Mr. Garcke pointed out that much of the improvement in the comfort in travel by road is duo to the improvements of the surface of the roads. The invention of the railway was essentially the product of necessity, and was mainly due to finding something better than the water-bound flint or stone road. It seems improbable that further marked improvements in road surfaces can be anticipated. The discomfort due to nervous reaction imposed upon a driver by the presence on tho road not only of many signals, but also of advertisements, lights and other contrivances, readily confused with official signs, is very real. Such signs are now greatly on the increase and will have to be controlled.
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Comfort in Travel. Nature 143, 466 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143466a0
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