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That the steel shortage is becoming critical. Of a heat wave developing in the Potteries.
That crawling in fog reduces petrol consumption.
That town polls oh transport seem popular just now.
That road transport can have the wrong sort of publicity. • - That a great deal more of the right sort is needed.
Of a six-cylindered radial two-stroke petrol engine of 906 c.c.
Of increasing interest in air-conditioning for buses and coaches.
From many sources that it pays to have new as well as old tyres Pneugrippa'd.
That the difficulties in the way of applying oiler brakes by engine suction have been surmounted.
That a travelling dental surgery, operated by certain health authorities, is a useful, but not a popular, vehicle.
That with wet for wheels to throw up spray, it is the lorry driver who most often slows up to pass pedestrians.
From Professor R. G. Stapledon, on power in :,griculture: "It is appropriate to do as you like where it is appropriate to do as you ought."
Someone saying that S.T.R.'s other name should be A to Z.
Of unprecedented demands for the new C.M. chassis price list:
That fly-over junctions are being adopted by the railways to relieve congestion.
That the same principle might well be applied in many cases to our main roads.
Of extremes—good and bad—in street lighting on the Greenford Road, West London.
The suggestion that roads approaching traffic. control lights should have really non-skid surfaces.
• That everything comes to him who waits—except the bus going the other way in the one-way street.
That Mr. Enston could never have foreseen, two years ago, the fame—or notoriety—he was to achieve.
Much of cyclists and pedestrians losing their lives, but little of the thousands whose lives are daily saved by watchful drivers.
Of a reader's wife who wanted to know what material was used for a lorry's "overall," and didn't it take an awful lot to make one.
That members of the A.R.O. headquarters staff attending provincial meetings are more often puzzled by accent and dialect than by actual difficulties.