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12th May 1931, Page 83
12th May 1931
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Page 83, 12th May 1931 — ONE HEARS
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That the Willys dual-purpose Commerce saloon is both cheap and efficient.

That no industry is more in need of co-operation than that concerned with haulage.

That the burning question—oil—is almost incombustible in ordinary circumstances.

That what the public constantly demands determines what the public eventually will have.

That road transport is a vital and not, as some in authority seem to think, a luxury industry.

That the good appearance of the average passenger vehicle is not without influence upon the design of goods vehicles.

That quite often beauty and utility can be com bined. 0 That the smaller hauliers need not be so afraid of the bigger—most of the latter were small men once.

That coach licensing is not unlike jig-sawing.

That coach owners must educate the public taste by still more publicity.

That coach proprietors should get together and organize a massadvertising campaign.

That the popularity of the really modern steam wagon has confounded many pessimists, Of discussions amongst Area Commissioners as to how best to measure and eontrol adequacy • of road service., The railways accusing road transport of highway robbery.

That, as a matter of fact, it is the railways who stand whilst the hauliers deliver.

That more motorbuses are being ordered in Paris to take fife place of trams which are being abolished in parts of the city.

Of a facetious person asking if milk would be allowed to travel at a greater speed if it were carried up to London in the cow.

No word from railway companies' solicitors about the distance of their stations from the villages to which they claim to give "an adequate service."

Not much, either, about the independent attitude of their porters.

Drivers expressing the wish that the "Unilateral" traffic system (used in Derby, Bishop Auckland, Newcastle and Belfast) was more generally adopted.

That time-tables hoilld not he made to wait, as time will not.

Of a certain dizziness coming over some of the licensing clerks.

Of many new names being added tO the list of municipal users of heavy-oil-engined buses.

That quite a number of new long-distance coach services has been plannea for the forthcoming season.

Of the Post Office as a big user of motorcycle outfits for the collection and delivery of letters and parcels.

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