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Of new commercial-vehicle propaganda by him. That much will be done by the each-wheel drive.
That by taxation differences sore the Road Fund (loth score.
That the settled policy of improving our existing highways is at king last to preponderate.
That the word " available " as applied to horsepower must have had a chemically minded sponsor.
That appeals to patriotism nabacked by price advantage will preferentially sell few British vehicles.
That total incapacity was the answer to the claim for two, men per vehicle above two tons load capacity.
That it's only good organization that can provide wages and keep on doing so in road mechanical transport.
That pedestrians still keep to the right, and that nothing. short of barricades would force them to ahange the habit.
That owners of Ford cars who cannot afford that 223 a year can all afford a fight for an equitable fresh horo-power rating.
That as taxation is based on available seats in hackney vehicles there is at least one good precedent for its being on available horse-power in private cars.
That goods vehicles, too, are as a fact taxed according to their available load capacity, measured by unladen weight, and that they invariably pay at a rate much above the loads they (Ivry.
That a lot more will be heard of this " available " consideration.
That there have been numerous exhibitions of Labour leaders' fireworks since the extra trailerman clause disappeared from the London Traffic Bill.
That bus buyers, whilst expecting vehicles satisfactorily to carry up to 100 per cent, overload, at the same time grumble at the weight of chassis this often necessitates.
That a great change of mind has come over many of the leading tramway authorities, and that some of the municipal advisers have already decided they will not be able to afford to be last., Of wry faces amongst passengers when on the section of the Rye-Winchelsea road, which is supposed to be maintained by the War Office, which collecta and disperses the large income derived from the heavy tolls.
That increasing numbers of motor owners want to know who gets the proceeds of these tolls on the vilely kept mile and a half of military road west of Rye, and that a Parliamentary return of salaries and other emoluments paid out of them might be worth asking for. Of much lighter coachwork for bus bodies.
That it's a question of inaction or enactment.
That the tax seems permanently under the axe.
Of no twin tyres advertised as the C.M.-ease twins.
Of rough roads strewn with nuts, bolts and even axle caps!
" Hats off to Darlington for showing her courage in a scrap."
" That, in these days, where there is a wheel there is a weigh."
" Tar ? Everywhere. All over everything, includingthe dog."
That we've seen the last of spring, but not the last word in springing.
Re the solid for buses, that the French consider it's a tyre for satire.
That " The Skotch's " advice Better buy the best than borrow trouble!'
That a-5-ton Foden wagon is being prepared for supply to His Majesty the-King.
That engine knock is not always fatal and that some engine types seem to thrive on it.
That dump competition is no longer regarded as of importance by the principal British manufacturers.
That the recently reported example of driving a
• -tractor by reins is not to be correctly described as "steer-roping.
That the experiment of makers' own attimdants at "Wembley will be watched with interest, and that in some cases beneficial results are already reported.
That Trojan shop runabouts are employed at the various Leyland factories instead of electric trucks, and that similar steps are contemplated by several ether big concerns.
That the War Office, the Admiralty and other Government departments joint!y maintain a Costs Investigation Department, but that they have to estimate their own costs these days.
Someone asking if, in his portraits of prominent personalities at the Royal, our artist tried to indicate by means of the facial shading those who had been for a holiday and ihose who had not.
That he certainly made it quite clear they were all heads.