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Original Text (Annotation: EAW004219 / 508753)
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More trucks lined up on railway land, possible waiting to be sold off so their new owners could compete with the railway for small freight traffic. Few in the government after the 1914-18 war or the 1939-45 war seem to have any idea how the sale of surplus road vehicles posed a problem for the railways that cost the government a great deal more than the mounts gained by the sale of surplus equipment. '