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19th February 1929
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Keywords : Greaser, Radiator, Pneumatics

Some very hot comments upon frozen roads.

Of some new Ford trucks with bevel-gear axles.

That Dundalk has 16,000 inhabitants and no fireengine.

Of electrically-heated boots for traffic policemen.

That a "short-' might cause a cdhfusion of the signals. .

Of low temperatures and high tempers over cold engines.

Once again the "drip, drip, drip" of the thawing radiator. • • Road-travel propaganda described as " broaching the coach."

That there is a great future for pneumatic power on Motor .vehiclea-- ----And that it is not, all 'in the air " either.

Of the motor trade alluded to as a shuttlecock.

That Surely Mr. Churchill regards it more in the light of a football.

That "free' wheels should prove extremely popular in Scotland.

That some inaccessible greasers never lase their original coat of paint !

Less of oil changing and

more of oil cooling. HERE'S ONE.

Postman's knock—if the mail-van driver advances the ignition too far. Of smiles on the faces of coach proprietors operating services to Bognor.

That it was high time someone spoke up in defence of the ill-used pneumatic tyre.

That the sale of vehicles made by General Motors, Ltd., totalled 1,842,443 during the past year.

Of a driver who uses the rubber tail lamp of his lorry for correcting mistakes in his log-book.

That, with total disregard for the prevailing • climatic conditions, engineers are diseussing cooling problems.

Of the man who said he liked always to have a thermometer in winter to let him know how cold he ought to feel.

• Of a sales manager who prophesies that four7 cylindered engines for light goods chassis will be obsoletein two years.

Of a man who, after being told by a friend that he had bought a 10 cwt Whippet, ,asked Lim where he was going to race it.

Annoyance -expressed at regulationswhich forbid the,use of electric warning devices on public carriages in London,*but allow them elsewhere.

Of those who wonder if the proposed extra five shillings on the driving licence would really go to the hospitals, or if it would go the way of the "road " fund.

That it takes more than a stone to knock out a modern Goliath..

That the recent Arctic weather has set heater designers busy.

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People: Churchill
Locations: London