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That judicious bus-washing pays for itself.
Of a Diesel engine replacing a petrol unit on a petrol-electric vehicle.
That concave panels are used on • one of America's latest body prollucts.
That coach and bus.speed limits are to be put at 39 m.p.h. and not 35 m.p.h. in the new legislation. • That the motor coach which broke into a Brixton bar was probably fed up with motor spirit and wanted a change.
That Mr. Herbert Morrison may group vehicles with solid-rubber tyres in one speed category, and somewhat low down.
That everybody in Whitehall, and the Home Office most of all, now considers as many as six speed categories to be impracticable.
"If ,Mr. Snowden means to add 3d. a gallon to the petrol tax what proportions will he cancel of the present annual-licence duties?"
That the Commissioners of Customs and Excise will have something to say when heavy-oil engines for commercial motors really get going.
That the Suggestion of "speed-category, discs" to be carried at the back and front of all types of commercial vehicle, for which idea The Motor is responsible, Os likely to catch on, get on, and be put on.
Rather less about slippery road surfaces.
That good lights give confidence to drivers.
That a hard frost warms the heart of the welding specialist. That Ford's European headquarters are to be at Cologne.
That the AA Ford truck is to have a four-speed gearbox.
Of tower wagons built to resemble high-class delivery vans.
That it'is the bus route that uproots the country "stick-in-the-muds."
That forward thinking is essential if the industry is to continue to advance.
That the riches of Croesus await the inventor of a satisfactory fog-piercing light.
That an experimental Diesel-engined bus is being commissioned in New Jersey (U.S.A.).
From a van driver, of a road that "had all the flesh washed off its bones" in recent storms.
Of hauliers busy carrying wood and coal for the destruction of carcases of condemned animals in districts affected by foot-and-mouth disease.
That the Home Affairs Committee of the Cabinet is unable to gauge the Parliamentary time which contemplated new motor legislation will need.
That Lord Russell is all but ready with his principal powder and shot made up from the Royal Commission's First Interim Report with additions— and subtractions.