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12th December 1922
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

01 oil strain.

af straining after effects.

Of scraping and scrapping.

That a Shed Day makes. headway. Of Ford facts, factors and factories.

"The .Skotch " on balance of power.

Of lubricating oil and " What a Life I " Of fine profits in the Bedfordshire courts.

Of some people's assumptions about sumps.

Of the touch of poetry in the "Long, Light Load."

Of the importance of including a shed day in the at hedule.

That in lubrication there is too much waste of good stuff, and too much use of bad stuff.

That many domestic questions occupied the attention of the National Council last Wednesday.

Queries as to whether Birmingham's trolley-bus driver was photographed in a comic .hat or had his hair dressed la trolley arm.

That Lt.-Col. Johnson claims a capacity of 21 gross ton-raiies per gallon of fuel at 10 miles per hour for the improved chain-track machine.

That Henry Ford has planned the plant at Dearborn to turn out a million agriraotors or tractors a year, and he thinks they will be wanted.

That the, Ford policy can be summed up in a few words: high wages, factory efficiency, moderate dividends, and good service to the public.

That good service, in Henry Ford's view, consists of supplying a sufficiently satisfactory article at a low price, rendered possible by skill and economy of manufacture.

And that he believes in buying, trying and minutely examining every type of now vehicle placed on the market, but in copying nothing except manufacturing methods where they seem better than his own.

That the mechanical transport section of the Army of the future will scarcely need to indent for road maps.

That only canals, wide streams, lakes and other expanses of water will check the movements of an army and its stores and equipment but that the amphibious chain-track machine will even conquer these difficulties. Of a new form of accelerating-speed tipping gear.

That deferred payments have saved many faces.

That it is better to have a loose choke than a bad cough.

Of quick service as an inducement to laggard buyers.

Of the problem of reversing the Ackerman-steered trailer.

That, perhaps, hacking the drawbar to the tractor may overcome the difficulty.

Of midnight oil consumed over the lubrication problem. .

Of Fwda (Freda), • theblack cat mascot of the

F.W.D. works.

And that it has a four-leg drive.

That melons by Melen may prove a good slogan for the fruiterer.

That, although all lorries have wings, few are of angelic temperament.

That there is likely to be a large increase in the number of motorbus stations.

Of a lorry with a 75 ri.h.p. engine which will develop only 45 h.p. in actual service.

Of still another tractor-lorry which, it is believed, will solve the present difficulties.

That the earliest makers of a tractor lorry are now looking into the subject once more.

That, whilst the ordinary lorry weighs approxiTriately as much as its carrying capacity, the tractorlorry can carry twice its own weight.

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Organisations: Army, National Council
People: Henry Ford, Johnson
Locations: Birmingham

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