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23rd August 1917
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Of not a little petrol swopping.

More and more steam blowing off.

Struggles going on against W.D. notice.

It's hard to carry on, but harder to stop. Here's a page without anything about coal-gas.

That money mayls.e going right enough yet wrongly.

Of overcrowded and overdue trains, but no help for it.

From the country, the town and the little country town.

That hundreds of villages have already run dry of petrol.

That co-operative societies have eyes on motorbus projects.

That the cry will yet be taken up—" the roads for the people." • • That air-cushion tires are proving both chassis and road preservers.

.• That customary speeds with two-wheeled trailers must be legalized ere long.

There will be fewer trains in September, and next to none on Christmas Day.

That no new type of London motorbus is likely to show up for at least a year.

That it takes five years to settle the aVerage crop from any agriraotored land.

That the heaviest loads must pass in the night, for traffic reasons amongst others.

That at present it does not pay to dig potatoes, let alone to motor them to market.

• That there may be 1111oKe and more delay over the L.G.B. report on heavy motor construction and use.

That there's no transport available for the produce of fully one-third of the newly-sown areas of potatoes and cereals.

That Laeres were the lorries which dealt with the " end " of Zeppelin L48, pictorially depicted in last week's issue.

That things do not go so well with the big wheel of the Whiting-Bull if the furrow has to be reduced ap, preciably below 14 iris in width.

That there's a greater inclhiation toWards fair treat. ment for country motorbus services in certain counties where numerous boroughs might otherwise apply to' be made county boroughs—Kent, for example.

That the overseas M.T., A.S.c. will not be cornfortless next winter, thanks to ;he Army Service Corps Central Comforts Fund at the War Office, and that official inquiries are already out as to requisitions. Of temper tempering.

"This must be paid for."

It's easy to get off the track. • Of presumptions and resumytions.

A call for the transwirt of coffee by motor.

• 0 Of impossible petrol and petrol. impossible.

That the best fitting of a non-skid is all round.

That some accessories are becoming luxuries.

That Coke will soon be as much to the fore as cocoa Of fewer incidents that lend themselves totillustration.

Of offers of tire presses being pressed on likely approved depots.

That the agrimotor of to-day is relatively where the commercial motor was in 1899.

That Ford tried an agrimotor corner in America about nine months ago and failed.

Of semi-elliptical wheels—quite an unexpected feature in any motor vehicle however nevelt , That Messrs. Allen and Edge do not stand alone in their views anent-one agrimotor for one class of job.

That "2O per .cent. less "• should be good enough economy both for the duration of the war and niter it.

There are to be women in the M.T., A.S.C., but that t 6 still taking men in. hemi_ryps..ss_nlsoraels That the water space in a. water ballast roller can be used for a supplementary reserve of fuel in certain instances.

That Labour will yet see that wages to last must. depend on production, and output itself on the maintenance of sales.

That. heavy boilers on trollies with small diameter wheels not only find out existing weak spots in •any roads, but make others in many.

That the curtailment of motoring generally has caused drivers of horsed vehicles to revert to their bad old method of being off side by preference.

That several firms in the industry have already got after-peace-arrangements in course of negotiation overseas by representatives who have been sent there.

That Major P.O. A-veling, RE., M.Inst.A.E., an old .Cantributor to the •" C.K," is id ow in command of the .11,E. Training Depot at Blandford, after nearly three' year of overseas service.

That if the S.M.M.T. and the A.B.M.A.M. do not range themselves against the schemes of certain county councils to make profits out of road tolls on motorbuses, their members will lack thousands of orders after the war.


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