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Kerb reflectors praised.
Of lubricating oils benefiting by inhibitions.
From Lord McGowan, that hydrogenation is not a good commercial proposition.
That other experts may not be prepared to agree with this.
That the new exhibition hall at Earl's Court is well equipped to provide artistic settings for shows.
The query :—Will the commercial vehicles gleam beneath a summer sky or an overhead winter fog?
Someone asking if the ex-Minister of Transport will change his name to Bellicose now that he has gone to the War Office.
That some local councils are none too prompt in levelling road surfaces that have subsided after excavations.
Of a " Day's " salmon fishing at the Army Trials.
Of W.D. trials and tribulations — but not many of the latter.
Hopes that, under Dr. Burgin, road transport's stunted growth may burgeon again.
• That a railway chief recently referred to The Commercial Motor as going from strength to strength. That a clean vehicle reflects a driver's conscience.
That a dirty • one reflects upon both owner and driver.
That bus drivers and conductors are to be subject to more stringent medical tests.
That Alan Turner's "Murder Party" gave nearly £31 to the Coaelibuilclers' BeneVolent Institute.
That the railways are banking on the hope that road transport will remain "a house divided against itself."
That our industry MUSt 120i play into the railway's hands.
That someone ought to compile a comprehensive booklet on road-transport facts for speakers.
That an instructional manual of this type should contain advice on accents and dialects to cover the country, including Wapping and Wigan, That some Londoners appear to have lost the bus-travel habit.
That "better late than never" does not apply to driving signals.
Of inquiries for that W.D. subsidy which is not to be given in future.
That some better method is needed at road crossings for breaking the continuity of tracks.