One Hears
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Of plans to check the non-dimmer of head lamps.
That the driver who leaves his vehicle at the roadside with head lamps blazing is the most irritating.
That the two-stroke v. four-stroke controversy is bringing forth champions on each side.
Readers amused (but not really surprised) at the ignorance of tht Lincolnshire magistrate who thought a day from a lorry was all profit.
That plain motor vans cover a multitude of loads, as is evidenced by the fact that they are used for the transport of explosives by a certain Welsh haulage undertaking.
That it is better to break bread than head.
Of considerable variety in new types of piston ring.
.> — Much earnest discussion of transpork defence-organization.
That one of the best qualifications of a driver is strict
attention to tyres.
That, surprising as the news may be to our pessimists, all is not British that is inefficient. Complaints that many tail lamps are still regrettably feeble, Repeatedly of drivers being confused by illuminated advertisement signs.
From the M.o.T. that the potential danger of such signs does not justify the difficulty of restricting their use.
The query, "Who will expect the most nourishing slices of the road-rail joint ?"
That the Hesselman system of pump injection, low compression and electric ignition for oil engines, although now proving highly successful abroad, was turned down by a famous 13ritish maker.
Of stamps that do not want to be licked.
That some people still think the railways dose money I If you hear the spring calling it may mean lack of lubrication.
—)- Of someone who thought that p.s.v. stood for "pleasant sort of vehicle."
That in these days of comfort for passengers (by road) the mistake is pardonable.