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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That women are to return to crinolines.

That if they do, the doors of taxicabs will have to be widened.

That it may also entail changes in the design of motorbus and coach bodies.

That only 3 per cent, of the machine-tool equipment at the Morris-Commercial works is of foreign That this is despite the fact that in the main machine shop the value of the tools is about 2500,000.

That the C.M. signed the death-warrant of that eminently mispronounceable word char-6.-bancs for motor-coach.

That over a million passengers have been carried by the Lister Auto-Trucks in use at the Empire Exhibition at Glasgow.

Of a new idea of a " cash register" to score the points at an A.R.O. rates meeting, but some doubts by S.T.R. as to from where the "till fill" is to come.

Some odd things about the tractor market in this country.

That mobile milk bars have won a definite place ln transport spheres.

That the duties imposed on buses imported into Mexico have

recently been doubled.

That fuel tankers have had a busy time during the past few days.

That the manufacturers' film-library scheme is one that should commend itself to distributors.

Rudimentary knowledge of c.v. repairing often produces rude men's tearing language, and a crude job.

Better, quicker, quieter and cheaper in the long run to let experienced men do the work, if convenient.

That a letter-writer in a Leeds paper has described road transport people as the "spoilt darlings of the transport world."

That, according to him, they and other highway users should buy their own land and make their own roads.

That the recent crisis must surely open the eyes of the authorities to the justice of road transport's claim to recognition as a vital service.

That, with regard to road, transport in particular, the Government would do well to adopt the Scout motto.

Of S.T.R.

being called " the wrangler who debunks wanglers."

That gales make tarpaulin adjustment a n, important point in loading.

That manu facturers o f electric incandescent Lamps are producing special types for use on trolleybuses.

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