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20th January 1925
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Of large distributors tight for tea.

That slow but sure lights the best fire.

--0 That there's much to be said for silence.

That not all retailers bless the motorbus.

That every lighted bus has its own aurora.

That not every speed merchant marks his hit.

Of better results from a battery due to a salt.

That road closing is harder than road Opening.

Of all-weather bodies in one-weather positions.

That any higher taxation must wipe out small men.

That one mustn't expect all bodywork to reflect.

That an owner may live or die on easy p-ayments.

Of Mr. J. C. Mitchell as the King of the Moneybags.

That the G.W.R. is nearing 500 commercial motors.

Of a range of trials arranged to render cement supply less deranged. 0 That some say all will go well if Hartlepool and West Hartlepool'll pool their interests.

That ditching of lorries is becoming all too frequent on the London-Birmingham road.

That the cause of many of these mishaps would appear to be sleepiness when driving at night.

That the lorry drivers' wayside cafés on the Birmingham road do quite a substantial trade.

Of nothing but a hood to be at the back beyond 26 ft. when the new hackney regulations come in.

Of internal combustion on the road undismayed by the new challenges there of re-dressed external combustion.

That independent mechanical road transport's best supporters are rail-tried traders tired of delays and denials. 0 The diverting ttaffic, that it is more diverting to the onlooker than to those who have to grapple with its problems.

That the C.M.U.A, is likely to remain the only heavy motor organization enjoying the patronage of H.M. the King.

It's more than 27 years since the rules and conditions for the first Liverpool Heavy Motor Trials were circulated. That rust, like money, talks. Lots of creaking wooden wheels.

That reserves once created want nursing.

Of London in the thick of it.

That fogginess is the mother of detention. That possession is not nine points in bus law.

That a good carburetter makes a bad van better.

Of place for a supercharger's pull at low. r.p.m.

There's still money in springs which aren't still.

There's also money to be made between their leaves.

That the new East End to Southend road is nearly ready.

Of chassis parts, as well as engines, being watercooled.

• Homeless Britons appealing for more Weird houses.

Many sounds from engines which indicate dirty carburetters.

Of many places that want buses and many more that need them.

That there's a possible but not an easy 10 per cent. in most sound motorbus undertakings.

That there's a bare five per cent. in many of the best-run companies doing goods transport.

Of somebody who feared that the term "heavyduty " chassis referred to the tax on it.

That, during recent fogs, localities were recognized more by sound and scent thanby sight_ That many accidents, really due to fogs, will ho laid to the charge of mechanical transport when unjust judges are summing against it for the year.

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