TRAVEL BY ROAD
The Montreal Travel Bureau recently features the story of how an Australian visitor to Canada was sold a motor-bus travel ticket which was 18ft long. It appears that an engineer of the Department of Roads in one of the Australian States wanted to visit more than 80 centres in the United States, travelling comfortably all the way, but in such a manner that he could observe roads and highways as he went. A motor coach itinerary was scheduled for him by the Provincial Transport Co.. Montreal (Canada) and the Australian was finally handed a tear-off ticket 18ft long, with 87 -ticket-tears" in it.
The route outlined totalled 13,391 miles, and the charge for the motor coach ticket was the equivalent of just over £52 10s- The Australian visitor was thus provided with the opportunity of surveying the leading highways of Canada and U.S.A. a( a cost of slightly less than a penny per mile.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 28
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157TRAVEL BY ROAD Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 111, 13 May 1939, Page 28
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