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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Many Women in TAXI driving amongst Prague are Becoming I women is becoming popii TaXi Drivers . lar in PragOe, the capital of

Czechoslovakia, but it is not a question of just taking out a cab. Every driver must have had four years of experience with motor vehicles, and before being granted a licence, must attend lectures on the layout of the city and the traffic rules. Presumably suitable tests must also be passed.

Persecution Through THE delights cif television the Medium of I are not always as fully

Television . . appreciated as they might be.

There has recently been some talk of preserving the personal copyright of each member of the public. An office boy attending his grandmother's funeral may be held to have ground for complaint if his image be thrown on his employer's T.V. screen to show him at a mid-week football match. A well-known traffic court lawyer also felt a little persecuted recently. Having conducted the case for the objectors to an application by a certain haulier, he retired home to view the evening's entertainment. The case had been unusually long and no doubt he was glad when it had reached its conclu sion. The newsreel came on, and prominently shown on the screen

was a large, vehicle with the name

of the concern against which he had been conducting the case boldly displayed on its side. " Will they ne er let me alone?" he pondered. Possibly, he may have considered the affair to be a deliberate attempt to demoralize him.

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Notable Achievement

IN December, 1927, the

by the Goodyear

I first Goodyear tyre came Tyre Concern . . . from the maker's factory at

Wolverhampton. By July, 1929, the millionth had been built, and last November the figure rose to 20 m.—and what a tyre achieved this figure! Whether by design or accident, it turned out to be a giant earth-mover type, 21.00 by 29, standing nearly as high as a man and said to be the largest of the type to be made in Great Britain. It was of 24-ply rating. and weighed approximately 8 cwt. Another interesting product of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., is Pliofilm, which has proved such a great aid to the food industry as a means for hygienic packaging.

Italy Designs Special MOST .foreign countries pay Motor Stamp or "Afar more attention to their its Show motor shows than do we,

despite the fact that our industry ranks as one of the most important and efficient in Britain, and is one of the greatest in the earning of foreign currency, even those much-prized dollars. As an example of the way in which Italy encourages its products in this connection, it is to issue a special postage stamp to commemorate the 33rd International Motor Show, which takes place next April. The value is 20 lire, and it has a red background, although we understand that this has no special significance. As will be seen, it shows a car surrounded by the flags of many nations, although we would naturilly have preferred the picture to be of a commercial vehicle. THE .author of our recent article "Arc Passenger Accidents Inevitable?" has found on his desk a .letter alleged to be signed by a nurse, Agnes Twinge, on behalf of an A B. Cockleshoot. The writer wishes to be assured that absence of reference to his

activities in the article was not intentional. He claims to have a higher record of accidents per busMile than any other passenger in the United Kingdom and that his achievements in this direction are surpassed only by Krantz, of Pachauhauhua, Wis , now lecturer in passengeraccidentotics at Minneapolis. He says that he has fallen off buses operated by every undertaking in Britain, many in Europe and at least six in Africa; that he was the lirst to fall off the NS type of London bus and to push his head through the bulkhead window of an underIloor-engined bus Once he had a trouser turn-up entangled in a Salerni Turbo-transmitter, and on another occasion was nearly electrocuted while

travelling on the roof of a, trolleybus. In a PS.

Playful ..Response to zn Article on Accidents

to the letter, Miss Twinge adds that this remarkable man was detained in hospital as a result of drinking tea at the local bus station refreshment room. Should he add this misfortune to his record we feel that it could be disputed as not being a pure passenger accident, It seems a pity that one of the accidents experienced by Mr. Cockleshoot did not have a more definite result!

Movie Star Was nRIVERS and other people Chained to Roof of L.' on the long road between a Van Cape Town and Durban were

interested and, in some cases, somewhat alarmed, to see a young leopard riding on the roof of a van, to which it was chained. It seems. however, that it was comparatively harmless, and as a cub had been attended to by a native girl. At night the animal was brought down and slept on the ground. It was bound for Central Africa, where it has become one of the stars in a colour film of jungle life,


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