"Nowadays," remarked the Prince of Wales at the Motor Show at Olympia, London, "speed does not interest me as much as comfort." In comment on this remark the London "Star" says: The British manufacturers and designers have concentrated on comfort. If speed is made to take second place on the roads, as well as at the Motor Show, the public mind will also be more comforted than it is in face of the terrible record of 129 highway fatalities a week. Haste, whether in flying along the road or in dashing across it, is fatal; the more comfortable way loses seconds and saves liven.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 23, 28 January 1936, Page 18
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