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10th August 1926
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Keywords : Bus

That more pianos are going by road..

Bands in fewer chars4bancs than formerly.

Of bus drivers. petitioning against police traps.

Of protests by shopkeepers against one-way traffic.

That one of the secrets of Zenith Success is simplicity.

There's lots of bodywork now on the road that must go.

That gas pressures get more depressed daily in more towns.

There are no quiet hotels on the Great North Road just now. • Of great enterprise, both •public and private, at Coventry.

Of the traders' "Which way? " for " One-way" at Wolverhampton. .

That chances for taxicabs grow less as bus services develop and expand, That goodwill in a business is built upby good goods and truthful advertising.

Of appreciation of. Wolverhampton's game of "Stop and go" for traffic control.

Of a Leyland bus which has run half-a-million miles on Willcox's oils and igreases.

That past performance is the best basis on which to estimate the ability of a motor truck.

That much spadework was necessary to perfect the Chaseside-Fordson shovel attachment.

Of 100 per cent. of Reensed motor coaches out and working for the best-managed concerns.

Of overworked staffs in the Jawing departments of the variousorganizations that prepare routes.

That shock tactics will net prevail against tax shocks. on Jappary 1st, but that holding some more unlicensed reserves may.

That the educational trips Organized by the Gloucestershire •Agriehltural Committee have been very suc cessful and•encotiraging. • That the speed merchant essaying to overtake the motorcyclist often creates extra road risks by travelling off side When he shouldn't.

That standing passengers should not be carried on long-distance bus services, particularly if through-passengers are chiefly carried.

That it would he incorrect to„ say that the Leyland statements in their adVertisement of last week should be taken with grains of salt.

It pays owners to remove seat cushionswhen omnibuses or coaches are used for the heavy personal luggage of private parties going on holiday. Of heat waves and tourist waves.

At least two accounts of most occurrences.

There's no blind Alley behind the Sentinel.

How Bank Holiday weather achieved the improbable. Doncaster taking leave of its trams with a gay Still complaints of buses that often pass stages before scheduled time.

Of horse transport—by motor van, so it is in the van still, but in one sense only.

Of sustained openeand closed efforts to help on the case for "On with the petrol tax."

It's worth doubtful measure to some people to save time at the roadside petrol-tiller.

A reminder to coaching parties that heath fires are more easily kindled than extinguished.

A word to the wise worker=-if it be dangerous te enter or leave a tramcar, travel by bus.

That where roads are undergoing reconstruction, surveyors are taking full advantage of modern knowledge: More road repairs are at present in progress throughout the country than ever before at this period of the year. • That the country bus"that charges more than the railway for the same short journey isn't going to attract much custom.

That the overplus of sales compared with delivery volumes is quite satisfactory to most owners of petrolfilling installations.

That necessity knows no law, but the driver who finds -speed a necessity has a good clkance of making the law's acquaintance. • That if railway-station gardens excite the admiration of American visitors, surely roof gardens on singledeck buses might attract sightseers.

• _fee_ That Brighton road traffic on a Monday morning is almost as heavy as in the City, and lucky is the returning week-ender who can „wait till the crowds roll by.

That Mr. Churchill's disregard for warnings that his new scale may give a set-back to the yield from taxation on commercial motors will prove once again his hasty temperament. • That the Kentish pageant entitled • " Sandwich— through the Ages" does not, as some might expect, depict the life history of that tough old warrior of the railway refreshment room.

HERE'S ONE

"What for d'ye wear ye're kilt when drivin' the van, Donal'? Is it no' awfu' draughty-like?"

" Mon," replied the carrier, " ye're recht aboot the wee bit draught, but the kilt's sae awfu' savin' tae the duds—nae bags at the knee, ye ken."


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