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22nd May 1928, Page 95
22nd May 1928
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

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That unSplinterable glass is more difficult to make than certain optimists had imagined.

Of railway emissaries buying up ancillary users' fleets in order to get traffics back to rail.

That railway companies are still common carriers (in law), but with very refined road stock.

That if petrol goes up, apart from the tax addition, so will interest in usable non-dutiable fuels, That Edinburgh actually lies west of Bristol, but no one (except a Scot) Will believe it without being shown a map.

That, if bus tickets were edible, there would be a lot of -" Give us yer ticket, guv'nor," heard round the stopping places.

That Walsall's tramway routes are a diminishing quantity, as another is to be scrapped and buses are to give the required service.

That if railway orders merely -take the place of those from existing customers the motor industry will not gain anything.

That the country carrier who called for a typewriter, carried it 10 miles for oVerhaul, collected it from "hospital," returned it to its owner, and charged only is. for his trouble, will never make his fortune at his job.

Of Whit; What? what?

That most roads are in for a " cushy " time.

That there will soon be no ditches to dodge.

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Of little breathing space over the Railway Bills. That " tar-splashing " is in full swingIn some parts. . . 0 Of bus proprietors busy with their summer timetables.

That "Jacks with good features" do not always attract Jilts.

That Buchan's third cold period came ProMptly but overstayed its time.

That the next of that worthy Scotsman's cold snaps is timed for June 29th to July 4th.

That everyone is looking forward to reading "Colonel Crunany's " book.

The coach proprietors praying that Whitsun weather may be all-sun weather.

How a pneumatic tyre did not come off best in a road encounter with a garden rake.

Of Colchester's wise decision to lessen her traffic problems .by giving up her tramways. .

That the. Victoria Dock Road may still, unfortunately, be described as an "air" route.

That "the success of railway transport depends upon the volume of business carried" and, if this is an anomalous state, we must suppose that the success of road transport does not.

'Let the better service win."

Of a tendency to develop 2i-tonners.

That the noisy exhausts come out on Sundays:

Of tactics changed at the Railway Corainittee.

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People: Crunany
Locations: Edinburgh, Bristol

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