"UNLUCKY" 13 TO GO
RAILWAY’S CONCESSION TO THE NERVOUS The London and North-Eastern Railway is abolishing the number 13 on its sleeping cars to suit the whim of nervous travellers. Every 13 is to be painted out forthwith and 14 substituted, an A being added to the number of the real 14 so that the sequence of the berths on the Scottish express trains may not be further broken. An official said recently: Railway travellers are superstitious. \\ e have found that quite a large section of the public dislikes the number. Travellers have arrived to catch the Scottish express and, finding that berth No. 13 has been reserved for them, have refused to occupy it. In many hotels and in some of the great liners, the number 13 disappeared long ago, 12a being substituted in some cases. On the other hand, the demand for the so-called “unlucky’ number, or multiples of it, has exceeded the available supply in som-} recent club sweepstakes. REPRINT
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 13
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