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Of a school on a trailer.
That a general speed limit of 25 m.p.h. is to be enforced in New York, U.S.A.
That following the practice in this country, licences are to be endorsed automatically for a speed offence.
That the report on transport co-ordination, in course of preparation by the Transport Advisory Council, may be issued in two to three months.
That following it the railways will endeavour to introduce more restrictive legislation on road transport.
That the teaching of road sense should be extended from schools to universities.
That the 800 courtesy road police should all be Bachelors of Road Sense.
Consternation expressed by both shopkeepers and shoppers at the prospect of the Hore-Belisha " noparking " law.
That between 1932 and 1936 imports of foreign motor vehicles increased by 66 , per cent.—from £3,077,982 to £5,105,264. That the industry is in suspension in case the railways spring a surprise in the spring.
That through its 48 organizations the British Road Federation now has a total membership of approxie match/ 200,000.
That the B Te.F. monthly bulletin of road information has a circulation of 10,000 copies.
That if the Amalgamated Horse and Motor Owners' Association, Ltd., and the Commercial Motor Users' Association, Inc. (South-east Lancashire Area)— Joint Organization—continues prominently in the news we shall have to invent some abbreviation to save space.
Of Lancashire people calling it Mr. Howarth'e association.
That unlike the case with dogs, the latest giant pneumatic tyres are encouraged to bite.
That American operators have expended over £30,000,000 on nearly 16,000 Yellow buses and eoaches.
That the Government will bear the whole cost of improving hundreds of miles of Class I roads in Scotland's crofter counties.