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Of " staggering " delays.
Of inquiries into the alleged wrongful use of trade plates.
Of " flashes " of nonsense about trolleybuses in the black-out.
Of a new electric lamp which repels flying insects instead of attracting them.
Of a rector endeavouring to supplement his fuel ration by stealing petrol doping tablets.
Of too many man-hours wasted at armament works through the inadequacy of bus transport.
That the winter's passenger-transport ills will not be cured merely' by altering the Peak-load period.
• That the A.R.P. services are becoming C.D.—not seedy.
Of problems of yesterday that will be tackled to-morrow.
Of many intereSted in ow pitture of the Fordson as a Derby winner.
That brighter nights are ahead, too, thanks to the two-head-lights concession.
That, if motor vehicles be allowed on the roads at all at night, it is essential that they shall see and be seen.
That, on coaches, for every 20 seats booltable before the war there is now only lane.
That in areas of heavy passenger traffic. two conductresses may be employed on double-deckers.
That all surplus W.D. goods Vehicles will be returned to their makers for sale to their dealers.
That the Government will fix the selling prices, which w111 allow 15 per cent. profit to dealers after a standard'allowance for adequate repair.
That at villages on the Russian front the Nazis are hanging out washing to camouflage fuel tanks, etc.
That this is not the only way in which they are washing their dirty linen in public.
Of an American powder • psoduct which, when blown into tyre inner tubes, is said to neutralixe charges of static electricity. , That our trenchant occasional Goniributor Mr. T. A. MacDowall; of P.D.Q. Transport, is now a fourth officer in the Merchant Service.
That when it is always buses. On the same route that are found bunching at stopping-places it, suggests there is something wrong with tile running schedule.