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31st August 1926, Page 37
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

More about coke fumes than meets the nose.

Of little being done or said at the moment about petrol taxation.

That agreements as to non-interference cannot go on for ever.

Of more and more directions in which coal has cut itself out.

Of really good signposts between Gloucester and Bristol.

Of fairs postponed because there is no fuel for the steam horses. 0 Many milkcans on lorries in the morning in Gloucestershire.

That Glasgow Corporation may ask for powers to build motorbuses. • That there's to be another round of railway trouble Within the next six months.

That the Kent County police are prosecuting chars-abanes drivers for exceeding 12 m.p.h.

That, although speeds of from 18 m.p.h. to 35 m.p.h, were alleged, the fines were only 10s.

That one driver stated he was allowed by his employers four hours for a 76-mile run to Margate.

Of this country rapidly approaching the high U.S.A. percentages of like-purchase motor sales.

That Garner's new commercial motor works at Tyseley, Birmingham, are now in full operation.

A query from a nervous passenger as to what happens if an all-steel bus mounted on rubber tyres is struck by lightning.

That they e's no border-line between much that is common to motor spirit and vaporizing , (Admiralty specification) Paraffin.

That those who go in for pig transport need tact more than strength, patience more than pep, and a sense of humour more than anything.

That where a small pig may be lifted in a second a large sow may take an hour to be enticed.

That the Plymouth Co-operative Society had a " turnover " of 12,154 in its motor coaching department for the three months ending June 5th, and that this was 1835 less than in the corresponding period of last year.

Wnat worries each Road-Congress man, Who pronounces aright if he can, Is that Shakespeare—the villain— Persuades us it's " Mil'n," Yet most people call it "Milan."

On consulting a man named Brentano, Who's a genuine Italian°, And so has a right To settle the fight, They find that he calls it "Milano." That some commercial sidecars will be cheaper next year.

Of a threatened coke shortage that has scared up prices.

Requests daily from novices for our operating costs tables.

19000 offered and refused for a Gainsborough-toll bridge, not picture.

That the only solution for our traffic problems is— a Mussolini.

Somebody asking—Was last week's "Here's One" a prophecy or a dream?

Of the broad arrow showing the way for six-wheeler manufacturers to follow.

That the C.M.U.A. president is driving from Paris to Milan and Rome and back.

That the Cheltenham-Gloucester road has one of the best surfaces in the country.

That the wise steam-wagon owner had, in most cases, got in a four months' stock of coal.

From R.T.N. re shingling a golf course with a Ford, that he is all for it and all over it.

That it is not usual to convert a char-à-bancs from solids to pneumatics under some 1160.

That a ramp without sides is useless for small animals and inadvisable for large ones.

That there is nothing sinister in the assertion, "The more motor buses the fewer pedestrians."

Sighs of relief from Sussex where limestone cliippings have superseded sand as a " sprinkler " for freshly tarred roads.

That the coal strike has introduced many a householder to coke, and laid the foundation of a lasting friendship between them.

That the wise traffic manager of any motorbus undertaking reduces the number of collisions by cutting out as many stops on bends and corners as he can properly forbid his conductors and drivers to make.

Of those who think that producer gas from corn husks should eventually prove a better business proposition than that obtained from wood, because corn is a speedier reproducer.


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