Genre:

Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Railways, Measurement

    Complains to the 'Editor of Punch' about the use of kilometres in a report of the speed of a train. Criticises the fact that it is impossible to know the length of a metre without tables comparing French and English measures. Urges Punch to ask Christopher D Griffith to introduce a bill to compel newspapers to supplement French terms for weights and measures with those 'of our own standard, according to Walkinghame or Cocker'.