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Complaints of time wasted by an epidemic of unpunctuality.
That traffic jams, being now a commonplace of everyday life, can no longer be accepted as an excuse.
That it is, no doubt, never too late to mend, hut the later, the greater the cost.
That it is up to all road users to study the studs and not behave with studied negligence.
That the power-house inside a mountain would make a kembrandtesque model for an etching. Of a shocked remonstrance when a mechanic referred to " bleeding " hydraulic brakes.
That Soviet exports to Finland are to include industrial equipment and motor vehicles.
Complaints from other road users that many riding schools omit to instruct their pupils in road manners.
That in consequence, many young riders think four legs should have priority over wheels in all circqmstances.
From a reader's wife that the Carmichael lorry, van or meat container "looks as if it would make a nice play-pen."
Of a suggestion, in Leicester, that the crews of corporation buses should be supplied with spray-guns to purify the air.
That study of the Highway Code may encourage good driving, but good highways would give the best encouragement of all.
Of an appropriate warning chalked on the tailboard of a vehicle carrying a wrecked 'I.R.S. lorry through Worcester. It read: "This could happen to you!"