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American Fleet MEETINGS run by drivers
Drivers Who Analyse Ivithemselves are part of a
Their Accidents . . fleet safety programme set up by a user in America. Here, every accident in which an employee of the company is concerned is analysed The drivers have formed a Kfety board, and when this holds a man responsible for an accident, he loses his chance for a safe driving award at the end of the year. The experience gained is of mutual advantage. One driver who has had several accidents was shown how his habit of overtaking vehicles at crossings cut off both his vision and that of the driver on the other vehicle. He had not realized this, but since doing so has had no accidents. It was proved in the case of another man that his repeated accidents were due to his looking straight ahead all the time, thus limiting his range of vision. He was trained to turn his head each way, particularly at crossings.
A22 A Slogan Which ['WRING the time when the Caused Much PerI-"cry was for "A Quicker turbation to Officials Turnround," a concern in the Midlands modified this slogan in order to have the principle applied to the return of its empty tins. It inscribed on each the words: "To-day Not To-morrow." The three capital letters were large, the remainder small. A driver of a full load of these tins put up for the night in Waterloo Road, London He parked the lorry and went to a lodging close by. Shortly afterwards an air raid started and a policeman on his beat lifted the lorry's tarpaulin to ascertain what was inside. All that he noticed were the large letters "1 N T" He decided that this was a state of emergency and immediately sought the tired driver, who flatly refused to rise from his bed and remove the lorry. The policeman then made an immediate report to his station, and for the rest of that night the street was cordoned off. ADRIVER writin:; to the "London Transport Magazine" claims to be the last of the L.G.O.C. horsed bus drivers under 65 years of age who is still employed by the L.P.T.B. Starting at Turnham Green in 1904, he now drives for Harrow Weald Garage and has given 43 years' unbroken service. He is anxious to know if his claim be justified.
Can This Record of a London Driver be Beaten?
THERE are still some people in this country who are in favour of the nationalization of transport. The reason for their preference is not far to seek if it be indicated by this scrap of conversation heard in a shop. The man behind the counter and another before it were talking about holidays. Another customer, a woman, entered and, gathering the subject of the corwersa Will It Come to Free Rides for
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don, butted in. She said: "I wouldn't take holidays yet if I were you. Might as well wait" Asked why, she said: " Well, as soon as the railways are nationalized we shall all be able to travel free." If that ever came about who would eventually pay?
The High "Pulling WE dealt in our issue dated Power' of Our September 5 with an exhi
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Editorial . . . . staged during that week by
Silent Transport, Ltd., of Woking. Last week we received a letter from Mr. W. M. Scully, the general manager of that concern. In this, he makes the interesting observation that 75 per cent, of the inquiries which have matured from this excellent little show mentioned "The Commercial Motor" as their method of introduction. We are appreciative of this comment. Silence in this case would not have been golden.