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4th September 1928
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Of those who are anxious to stop all heavy traffic on the roads between 10 p.m. and 6 am.

That these people would doubtless be the flrst to "raise Cain" if their morning paper, letters and milk were not waiting on the breakfast table.

That free-wheel transmission, if properly adapted,can recoup the petrol tax to any owner.

That the „railways would like to imitate the ancient mariner and shoot the "Albatross."

That one reason for the rate collector's call s to see if one is still there—another, to get the eh ue.

Of an old lady who asked : "But why does one need a van for carrying greyhounds? I tho ght they ran!"

That hopping Motor coaches are not such un afe vehicles—at any rate in Kent—as they might soind tJ the uninitiated.

That if women wore as Many clothes as they did in pre-war days the motor coach luggage-Carr ing problem would be 'almost insoluble.

That .the Mercedes-Benz heavy-oil, semi-Di sel engine may shortly be the subject of a new Bri ish company flotation in order further to facili ate great expectedcommercial-motOr developments.

That the chief effect of the new Speed Order (20 m.p.h, instead of 12 m.p.h.) announced to tke effect froni October 1st, will be to cause a till greater demand for giant pneumatics for he vy loads.

From additional quarters that the insistent way demand for general road or transport powers now granted leaves the companies under oblige tns to Parliament to make several kinds of moves on the road or to find themselves before long much discredited.

Of motor-coach rallies all the rage.

That presumably motorbuses will be run on air in Ayr.

Of Whit-washed railway passenger travel statistics.

That Chile • chances shouldn't leave British makers, cold. Of a low chassis suitable for a common carrier.

That the question of motor noise is forming the "silly season" topic of 1928.

• The comment that "-It's the trams that make suburban traffic the very devil."

That, in early motoring days, the .gearbox and Pandora's box had a lot in common.

That it is the gaps between, more than the stones themselves, that make the pneumatic tired.

An old business man's advice to an enthusiastic tyro: "Fire away by all means, but file away, too.

That it's anybody's money they want at the seaside—and at other places, too, beside and not beside the seaside.

Of pedestrians who . would rather negotiate Piccadilly Circus than the cross-roads by the war memorial at Golders Green. '

How the itinerant fishmonger rises via handbarrow and motorcycle combination to the final dignity of a stationary shop.

That-pneinuatic-tyred buses will he welcomed by Parisians on their cobble-stoned streets, but will the cobblestones be welcomed by the pneumatics?

That motor vehicle stealing is becoming one of Britain's staple industries and that the motor thiK for one, doesn't .want to see the return of horsetransport.

That the Southern Railway, in order to check the growing popularity of the mOtor coach, has placarded railway hoardings with the following" You tak' the High Road and I'll Ink' the Rail .Road—and reach the Seaside afore yo r .That you cannot pay your tax and live on it.

That the cycle-carrier merits further development.

That a S'afeguard ramble may beat any preamble.

That, although we hear less of exhaust noises, other noises are by no means exhausted.

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