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12th January 1926
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Too much of many motorcycles.

Much of the sprag on the Continent.

Of pleas for abolishing theatre queues.

"What about licence queues, too?'

That failures often teach more than success.

That failure records should be carefully studied, not burned. More exhausts than neighs in mews nowadays. A lot of queries about gingering up tram receipts. Of street hold-ups in Dublin—and plenty in London. That tasteful decoration is not wasteful decoration.

That rises in oil shares forebode others in petrol prices.

That The motor industry is not so dole-fnl as some others.

Of several hundred water-barred sections of motorbus routes.

Of a schoolboy describing Speedometer as the wife of Ananias.

That motors in the U.S.A. have increased by 2,000,000 in one year.

Of many Treasury clerks who want to be yappy over the Road Fund.

That establishment expenses are now up in vievrof revised insurance schemes.

That the all-weather coach can prevent people thinking that rain and train are synonymous.

That if the railways are granted and utilize general road-carrying powers they will have to repent at leisure.

Of steps about to be taken to prepare more actively for British participation in Milan's International Road Congress next September.

That motorcars and motorcycles divert in the aggregate more remunerative traffic from railways than do both motorbuses and motorvans.

That Ulster's food and milk are already costing her • urban populations more, thanks to the recent barefaced pro-railway legislation of Northern Ireland's Parliament.

That Mr. Shrapnell-Smith's address of last week, delivered in the general meeting room of the G.W. Railway at Paddington, merits wide circulation and close study.

That with all members of the Cabinet and most Conservative members of Parliament owning and using motorcars, the House of Commons dare not pass any legislation of Which the effect might be to deprive poorer members of the community of motorbus and motorcoach facilities. Of the grease-spot on the Mobiloil chart.

S.T.R. telling how to turn accounts to account.

The reminder that a heavy-vehicle tax is a food tax.

The 14emark, "So they're still chewing Waterloo Bridge!"

Of a new Star that concerns economy more than astronomy.

That Greece seems bent on getting rid of her weak constitution.

That the longest way round may prove speedier than the flooded " short cut."

That Fords may be " unhonoured," but they can't complain that they're "unsung."

That it's queer how most of the world goes wet in sympathy when the sun has a spot.

That those who don't buy reconditioned Leyiands soon may be like Old Mother Hubbard.

That in flood-time pasSenger-carrying seaplanes might—{Or might not.-:—ED.1----be employed in the Thames Valley instead of buses.

That limited companies are bound by law to keep properly audited accounts, and that the small hauliers who do so are a limited company top.

That the Stockton Co-operative Society° is extending its employment of travelling shops and that the Burton Society finds that its innovation in this direction is most successful.

That the internal heating of retorts is as surly challenging external heating in the coke-making industry as internal has challenged external combustion in power and transport.

That the handling, of lost property found in 4..heir motorbuses remains a difficult problem for many owners who serve long-distance country routes entering the jurisdiction of several police authorities.

That motorbus traffic in any area depends upon population, condit4oned by local attractions, the degree of inclination to travel, spending power and the character of alternative means of conveyance.

"Notice is hereby given that if the Government's proposals to raid the Road Fund and to increase taxation on commercial motors become law, prices for all articles delivered by this van must be put Up."


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