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Of knotty Notts bus problems.
—Puzzle: Find the Road Fund.
Of the light car as the worst risk.
Of outside pasgengers as " epiperipherals."
That there's not always money in mileage.
That Glastonbury's parking troubles remain.
That Cheddar Gorge at times can scarce disgorge.
That London's season-tide traffic streams are this year More reason-tied.
That motor vans for African native drivers need to be particularly fool-proof.
That the more motor coaches go out the more certain it seems that motor coaching never will.
That the Treasury is more than puzzled how to work out any economy scheme for the roads branch of tha country's necekties. .
That road deaths have not increased so amazingly considering the immense and ever-growing increase in road traffic.
From a prominent designer of motor vehicles who laughingly tells us how, in the final stages of the development of a new model, he invariably becomes a kind of foreman fitter.
That the Government, per Mr. Churchill, has 'raked up records of the readiness in 1924 of motoring members of the Taxation Committee to agree that sixteen millions odd a year was enough to spend from the Road Fund on roads. More wheels and less woe.
That "no deposit" will encourage many would-be users. . • The query: "How cart nothing (a vacuum) work tt brake?"
That the six-wheeler subsidy will tend to expedite progress which is inevitable_ From a cheerful road-mender—" Pack your tar rubble in the old pot-holes and smile, smile, smile!"
That the G.W.R. is obtaining an average of 11-12 m.p.g. on its Maudslay M.L.-type single-deck buses.
That the petrol-origin fight is becoming extremely spirited—even more so than the sp. gr. would appear to justify.
That where suitable four-cylindered and six-cylintiered engines are available the modern tendency is to buy the "six."
That the low-framedchassis, originally brought Out for passenger work, is becoming increasingly popular• for goods trans-port. 0 That the adaptability of the commercial motor chassis to the user's requirements is rather astonishing.
That the upper and lower decks of the new sixwheeled buses are more than saloons; they are more akin to assembly halls.
That there are Still people in the commercial, motor industry who will not concede to the six-wheeler the advantages' it presents of lower axle loads and of encouraging the use of pneumatic tyres.