A Matter Requiring _ Research
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I WOULD like to support your correspondent G. T. A. I Yorke, who stated in his letter which appeared in The Commercial Motor dated December 11. 1953, that he had noticed an increase in the incidence of travel
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sickness among passengers travelling on underfloorengined coaches.
Both my wife and I are regular travellers on coaches operating from London to the coast and although the each-way distance is only in the region of 70-80 miles, we have both experienced a feeling of nausea after riding irk the underfloor-engined type of coach. This is not a figment of the imagination, as we both noticed it when the changeover was made a year or so ago to the underfloor-engined type• of coach by the operating company.
When riding in the old-type coaches, having engines in the normal position over the front axle, we experienced no such feeling. We have tried sitting in the centre of the vehicle, as suggested by the Editor, but although it is a little better than the front or rear part of the coach, it makes little difference to axi uncomfortable journey.
Twickenham, Middlesex. J. 0. STARLING.