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21st April 1925, Page 3
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Of tugs-of-war over brake linings. Of stocks of spare parts held too long.

That not all tall men have tall voices.

Of synthetic petrol from vegetable oils.

"The more concrete the more eiscreet." That not every hare has yet been started.

Of bulbs for headlamps getting the blues.

That more should be rated that's rateable.

That a business may decay inside • a decade.

That extra waiting reduces extra weighting.

Of instances of carburetter cut carburetter.

Of less profit in petrol than.",a made out of it. Of double-deckers as being of the first flight, That cash for the fined is often hard. to find.

That centres of influence may be more than points.

Of drivers who suffer from spasmodic combustion.

Of paint removal by A.L. blow-pipe and dissolved acetylene.

Of bigger sums to be reserved in respect of big bus obsolescence.

That on two points at least the bus beats the tram —L.S.D. outlay and less delay.

Of the covered top-deck of the motorbus as the last nail in the coffin of the tram.car.

That the traffic managers of the co-operative societies are forming an association.

That Wren's and Rennie's works have been more damaged by time's working than by that of motorbuses.

That legislation most often follows the events, appropriate to which it merely puts on record the com.munity's approval.

That many owners are ordering electric headlamp bulbs with the glass blown or sprayed blue or yellow, with an inclination to favour true blue.

That a motorbus chassis should be classed as a true rotarian in that, although it likes a full body, the service that it renders to the public is all above self.

That many owners of private cars who dash along the roads behind blinding headlights forget the Departmental Committee's recommendation of 200 ft. as the maximum. distance at which such driving lights should be able to pick up an object corresponding to the British Standard Disc, and equally ignore its recommendation of 150 ft. as enough. That a wise guy makes a wise buy.

Also, that all unwise buy makes a wise guy byand-by.

Of door-banging as a wooden oath.

Things mentioned and unmentioned.

That to take much out one should put much in.

-0 That 12 hours' pay for a six hours' day soon ends.

— 0 — Londoners clamouring for the " one-seater '' taxi.

That the dazzle trouble will die out for six months.

" The cost of advertising falls on those who don't.'

That it isn't only the birds that are building just now That the police, in making brake tests, will make drivers testy.

That, apparently, no surface or gradient is a bogey to the semi-bogie.

That the more on the 'banes, the more in the bank for the coach owners.

That it is good to make both ends meet, but better still to make them overlap.

Some people grousing that the sun's day out bo seldom coincides with their's.

Much of interest outside commercial motoring, yet with some bearing en its many phases.

That it's 20 to 1 against there being time this Session to carry any new Motor Legislation.

That some rural communities are more disturbed by wireless loud speakers than by any motorbuses.

That the Home Office conference of chief constables has resolved that the public safety demands lights on level-crossing gates during honrs of darkness.

That the C.M.U.A. recently voted 2100 to test out a number of anti-dazzle tinted headlamp bulbs and "blinkers," capable of use in and with any make of lamp, and for a report early in October.

That Mr. Shrapnel-Smith is to give an address at Birmingham, at the Chamber of Commerce, at 5 o'clock on Tuesday, the 28th inst. on the occasion of the annual meeting of the West inst., Division of the C.M.I.T.A.

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