Speeding Up In the past week Mr. Kaye Don has
driven a motor- boat faster than one has . ever been driven before, the London and North Eastern Railway has knocked some- thing over a quarter of an hour off the run from London to Edinburgh, and the L.M.S. covered the distance between London and Liverpool, and London and Manchester, in a few odd minutes less than usual. Every day, therefore, several hundred human beings whom business or pleasure may take in those particular direc- tions will spend between them some thousands of minutes less than formerly in the train. It is encouraging to hope that they will somehow or other be more profitably employed and everyone be ' much the better for the railways' enterprise in acceleration. The resolve of railway managements to keep going from good to better is worthy of all praise. Yet how long is it since we were all perfectly content to jog down the Strand in a horse-'bus
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