Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport. – in the House of Commons at on 6 December 1920.
Sir Eric Geddes
, Cambridge
The limitation of the minimum of 20s. which has been mentioned approximately gives 100 miles' journey. The basis on which these new fares were given was, as the House knows, to increase the net revenue, and the companies advise me, and I have every reason to believe it is true, that short-distance travel will go on whether there are cheap fares or not.