TRANSPORT EXPERT
EX-RAILWAYMAN'S VISIT (By Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A retired English railway official, Mr. E. C. Cox, who organised and controlled the transport of millions of troops to France by way of Folkestone and Dover, is a passenger to Auckland by the Narkunda 'with his wiie. He will tour the North and South Islands. During his fifty-three years' service Mr. Cox travelled "with every Royal personage who visited England, and has many British and foreign decorations. In the course of an interview, Mr. Cox said that rail-cars had been tried in England, but were found successful only where the population was sparse. Air services controlled by the railways were not a paying proposition and were only likely to be successful where there were both land and sea crossings, such as the Channel Islands and the Isle of Wight.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 12
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139TRANSPORT EXPERT Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 12
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