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That the need for maintaining and developing the xport trade in commercial motors is not being overNiked.
That it's now a real "terror by night" to drive n a strange road, lose the route, and try to read a ignpost.
That the "Big Shots" at a well-known coachuilding works have given up their luxurious cars and in be seen on motorized cycles.
That this is proving almost as much fun for them 3 for the employees who pause to stare.
Someone suggesting that a little white paint could a spilt in the gutters of kerbless country roads to iable drivers to " keep off the grass " in the dark.
That many emergency drivers without previous unmercial-vehicle experience overlook the fact that iecified tyre pressures are usually too high when iere is no load aboard.
Someone asking if we have the plant available for extracting vegetable oils in sufficient quantity for use as motor fuel.
That the answer is in the —ative.
That some think the trail of wrecked refuges is probably caused by drivers who try to see beyond their lights.
That others say it is due to driving in such a way that the brake stopping distance is greater than the limit of visibility.
That in view of the great interest in producer-gas there is urgent need for classes of instruction in the handling and operation of the equipment.
Of a lorry driver who saw only just in time an unusually thin constable and remarked: "But I thought they'd painted white rings round allthe lamp-posts."
That there is not much in the rumoured intention of many road transport concerns to revert to horses.
That whilst horses may be available, there is now a dearth of harness and suitable horse-drawn load-carrying vehicles.
That a 420-mile bus service has lately been started in China between Kumming and Paoshan on the new Yunnan-Burma highway.