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17th April 1923, Page 3
17th April 1923
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Of curious objections to wide roads.

• Of driverettes for New York's taxis. • Of Manchester as a city of signposts.

Of the last aid of first-aid ambulances.

Of growing objections to the term " pirate" bus.

Of more tramway tracks being taken up.

That Wolverhampton is following Birmingham's

example. 0

That the number of competitive buses in London is steadily increasing. 0 That it is essential to take a long view when considering plans to meet traffic developments.

Of an increasing tendency of light car makers to pay attention to the light van market. '

That forward March is obviously the wrong order when followed by backward April.

That the mobile shop reverses the order of trading by the shop following the customers.

That tyres should be thoroughly inspected and not merely judged on general appearances.

That, were a race organized for commercial-vehicle drivers, those who handle the newspaper delivery vans would win handsomely.

That one supposes that they are insured under the . policies of those papers they deliver.

That leaf springs will probably develop into an important branch of wheel manufacture.

From Sir Lynden Macassey, KC., that, as consulting counsel to the C.M.U.A., he does not make a living out of it.

From the President of the Association that the £16,000 spent on the Extraordinary Traffic case will satisfy the Clif.U.A. for a long time in the matter of excursions into the law.

A grouse from a Sussex pig-keeper because he has to pay 14s. 3d. freight from London on one ton of meal, whereas two tons travel for 15s. 6d.

That a suitable reply to the conservative farmer who pooh-poohs agrimators on the ground that they do not breed is that neither do they die.

On the authority of an eminent KC., that Mr. Shrapnell-Smith climbed the tree of fame branch by branch, leaving his footmarks on the sands of time.

That the Devon County Council's recent by-law to compel omnibuses and motor coaches carrying more than eight passengers to be air-tyred is ultra vires.

That the Minister of Transport and not the Minister of Health is the confirming authority for any by-law made under the Locomotives Act of 1898.