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12th August 1924
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That few traffic jams are jamborees. That London is now officially empty.

Of ,common types becoming commoner. That road motors are the real "movies."

That the way of the worldis to motor more.

" The quality of (some) petrol is not strained."

That most heath fires are caused by non-thinkers.

That Oxford Street, just at present, is nobody's treat.

That happy is the motorbus owner now at full length.

That the sun never sets upon a running motor. engine.

That progress demands constant rejection of the. half-true.

That, in spite of Wembley, the seaside is more than usually popular.

That some drivers throw oily rags about and empty fireboxes on to the roads.

That on some roads the ashes may prove useful in levelling inequalities provided by local authorities.

That some men at any rate manage to survive the death of their companies.

That the bus-length cut is to be 26 ft. after all over all for all except London.

That to be burnt at the sparking plug is the just end of all good motor fuels.

Of a strong resemblance between the dog in the Manger and. the hog on the road.

That motors belonging to a co-operative society have been fitted with wireless receivers.

That they may now be .able to hear what private traders say as to their immunity from income-tax..

Of rivalry between Sheffield and Leeds as to which can enrol the greater number of .C.M.U.A. members.

" Come on " to those private-car interests which are hostile to the poor man's motorcar, the motorbus.

That in the construction of motor coaches the "Narrow Way" is more likely to lead to their salvation.

That more soft fruit might well have been taken to market in many areas by motorbus, and in some might still.

Someone asking if the St. Louis warning signal is shaped like a windmill because it is designed to put the wind up.

--0 Of the increasingly recognized value of the motor coach as a means of improving agricultural educational facilities. That Canada may temporarily solve England's housing problem by aupplying her with wooden "nesting boxes."

That cutting off the tails of single-deck motorbuses cannot fail to make double-deckers raise their heads where they shouldn't.

That the worst efforts of its enemies cannot make road transport impossible, owing to the new friends which interested hostility creates.

That the cult of the bungalow and cottage habit of life between country towns is almost solely due to the cultivation of the motorbus.

That the one-seater taxicab seems to be of a slightly unsociable character, but, no doubt, will be welcomed by stern bachelors of both sexes.

That London borough councillors are puzzled to decide the merits and demerits of certification for motor drivers before driving licences are issued to them.

Nasty rumours about the bad way some new roads are spurning under the traffic they were bought to bear now that it has been brought to bear upon them.

From America, that they now know more about cement for roads than they thought they knew, and that it's still regarded there as the king of road materials.

That orders for 1925 delivery of motorbuses and motor-coaches will exceed those for 1924 delivery, unless the weather breaks up totally within the next few days.

The suggestion that, if taxicabs sport advertisements, they might also carry miniature coin-in-theslot machines to supply matches, cigarettes, hair-pins and papier poudre'.

Disappointment expressed that the "immediate " taxation concessions of surrender values and only 10 per cent, extra on quarterly licences cannot take effect until January.

That many leading men in art, commerce, literatare, politics and science have already marked off the evening of November 5th next for the C.M.U.A. corning-of-age dinner.

That Sir Henry Mayhury's chairmanship of the London Traffic Board (or Commissioners) will not result in his relinquishing direction of the Roads Department at the Ministry of Transport.

That it must not be forgotten that for 1924 Mr. R. J. Smith advocated, with other witnesses, taxation remissions of one million pounds per annum for cars and three-quarters of a million for motorcycles, whilst seeking to increase that on commercial motors by three-quarters of a million.


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