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Much less noise on trolleybus routes.
That taxi drivers are scarce, but that you can • always get a taxi.
That a short holiday is sufficient to prove that the motor coach is not the back number that so many think it is.
That certain institutes are doing much, by way of evening classes, to attract young men to the road transport industry.
That 5,000 L.M.S. men are being intensively trained as commercial-vehicle drivers—but where are the vehicles for this multitude?
That the instruction school "coarse yarns are spun "—in that is I is at Oldham, where a cotton-trade sense, That aluminium enables traders and their goods to "travel light."
That the fantail war waged in Yorkshire is not, as one reader supposed, a prize-pigeon con test.
That the lot of some drivers may not be a happy one, yet drivers seem, on the whole, a happy lot. That opposition by the railways is often a "fishy" business. 0 That the Alvis concern is designing and making trLtors and vehicles suitable for both military and commercial needs.
That Londoners are eagerly looking forward to the wholesale conversion of the tramways system to trolleybus working. 0
That even in the courts it is admitted of the Road and Rail Traffic Act that there might be *misapprehension as to the working of its provisions.
That, like income tax, it is a thing that even those who administer it do not fully understand.
That 60 heavy lorries were required to convey the scenery and other material which the Berlin State Opera took to Paris for the German Artistic Week.
That legal restrictions =-manufacturing constrictions.
Of too many back-axle failures resulting from fierce clutches on some light vehicles.
Of a Leicester Quarter Sessions decision on brakes that may have important repercussions in other directions.