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A suggestion that a sliding panel behind the driver should be a compulsory fitting on all coaches.
That the only 300 m.p.h. limit sign yet erected stands at the entrance to Brooklands track.
That the Tapley calculator represents an enterprising attempt to provide a performance co-efficient for any vehicle.
That more precise estimation would result if an engine-efficiency factor could have been included.
Of someone asking when we shall have to obtain permission from the railways before taking our families for tours in our private cars.
Of bombardments by road chippings from the vehicle in front.
That oil-fueI filters mounted near the exhaust pipe give improved running.
That the average farmer is kind to his horses but often treats his machinery outrageously. Surprise expressed that more radiator filler caps are not made externally of non-heat-conducting material.
That the Metrovick-Dodds engine indicator removes a hitherto insuperable difficulty in oil-engine development.
That the railways are always economizing in the number of their employees, but road transport employs more men every year.
Of economy-minded transport engineers now viewing with disfavour those oil engines on which the leakage from injectors and pumps is allowed to run to waste.
0 • The Solex thermostatic starter control highly praised by drivers.
T hat modern methods of street lighting should save many accidents.
That the wise appreciate the fact that, in peace or war, road transport may be the saviour of Britain.