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rINE of Britain's leading commercial-vehicle designers told me the other day that he retired to bed every night for a month with volumes of The Commercial Motor covering several years past. Before he went to sleep he carefully read and memorized criticisms by this journal of current vehicles. The results of the broad picture that he formed will be seen shortly in a new range of models which I predict will sweep the world.
Sleep Thinking
ALESS laborious method of " designing " was adopted by a writer of serious novels and travel books, who was asked by his publisher to try his hand at a thriller. He had not an idea in his head, but one Sunday night before he went to sleep he said to his subconscious mind: "Tonight you will write me the first chapter." When he awoke in the morning it was mentally written, and by lunch had been committed to paper. Then he dismissed the subject from his mind until the following Sunday evening, when he set his subconscious to work again. In 12 half-days he had completed a successful 12-chapter book with a minimum of mental effort.
Commercial-vehicle designers mieht like to try this technique.
Anarchy
I FIND it hard to swallow the claim that of 293 owner-driven I Jaguar cars observed during six months' study of driving habits on a five-mile section of the Great West Road, London. 69 per cent, caused accidents to other vehicles without being directly involved. If this and other statistics recently published in The Observer are to be believed, a state little short of anarchy exists on that highway. For instance, 66 per cent. of the taxis seen are alleged to have disregarded red traffic lights, whilst 99 per cent. of motora28 cyclists weaved dangerously in and out of heavy traffic. Under such conditions, it is to the credit of the heavy-vehicle drivers that the survey—carried out, apparently for his own amusement, by a director of an advertising research concern—reports "laden lorries ar:. usually well driven, but empty lorries are much less well driven—presumably because the driver is heading for his home base."
Repercussions
ARISING out of the shortening of the working week. F. W. Hampshire and Co.. Ltd., manufacturing chemists, of Derby, are proposing to run their own bus services. They will be opposed by Derby Corporation. Work now begins at 7.45 a.m.. instead of 7.30 a.m., but the new time apparently does not suit the municipal bus services. and keen workers are suffering the unendurable hardship of