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Public Health I mercial-vehicle committee Exhibition? , . . has recommended to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders that the Public Health Exhibition should be approved for the display of municipal vehicles, but there is some objection from other interests.
Speedy Air Delivery pARTICULARLY rapid deof Car Radio to I livery by air of a Philco
I raq radio set was made last week.
Within an hour from the receipt of an order from the King of Iraq the set was o. board the Imperial Airways liner "Horatius," and was installed nearly 4,000 miles away within two days.
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The Man Who Knows A DRIVER appearing for an About the Haulage 1—kapplicant before the North
Business Western Traffic Commis sioners at Liverpool was asked why his employer could not come and give evidence. "Well you see, sir," he remarked, "he has nothing to do with the business really. He's only the boss."
A Suggestion to HE brief social season is Humorists at I in full swing and, if we are Drivers' Functions... to judge from complaints re
ceived, operators who have lived secluded lives in the drivers' rests along our highways are busy hiding their blushes. A humorist who is given an unrestricted licence may leave, a wrong impression with visitors. How the Value of IT is a fairly common cornConferences May be A plaint against conferences in Raised . . . . . . general that, whilst they are valuable education to those who deal with matters of principle, they fail to touch the bulk of those who have to deal with the practical side. By a study of the Press it is possible for all to keep in touch with the happenings on such occasions, but the transport manager who explains to his staff, or the association secretary who explains to his members, how the matters discussed affect, or may come to affect, the particular businesses, creates goodwill and forges desirable additional links in the chain of knowledge.
A Trolleybus Scheme WHILE driving in the recent which Facilitates Fog ri fog we noticed a simple Driving and effective plan adopted by
London Transport to assist
drivers of trolleybuses tinder such conditions. At severe bends or corners, where it is possible for the driver easily to miss the line of the kerb, a string of lights has been mounted alongside the overhead. wires. By following the lights the driver can be assured that he is on the correct course, although visibility at road level may be almost non-existent. We understand that this system is to be provided at all necessary points on the new trolleybus routes, and there is little doubt that drivers of all classes of vehicle will appreciate it. One of the Dangers AN incident illustrating the
of Following Present
folly of some feminine
Fashions
fashions occurred in a pro vincial town. A woman stepped into the road. She wore a hat of the type tipped over one eye, and did not see the oncoming traffic. Only smart work by the driver of a 43-tormer averted a nasty accident. Women do a great deal for fashion, we are told, but-when danger is involved it is surely time a halt was called. No one should venture in modern traffic with one eye deliberately obscured—it is difficult enough with two.
Tributes to the IT is pleasant to read so fre Courtesy of Heavyquontly public tributes by vehicle Drivers . . motorists to the courtesy and
consideration generally shown
to them by heavy-vehicle drivers. Letters of this kind .often appear in the motor Press, and even in the daily newspapers ; long may they continuo to do so They are a not unimportant factor in maintaining public, goodwill towards road transport, and the drivers, whose good manners and skill prompt this appreciation, do no small service to the industry. They are, after all, its representatives Most prominently under the notice of the public, and the public's opinion of road transport is accordingly very much in their hands. Many operators are fully alive to that fact and no operator an afford to disregard it altogether.