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Road these two advertisements:— " Railway trucks lost in transit Siding owners and others are urgently requested to look for trucks. . . . All contain returned empties," etc., and, in an adjacent column:—" Jos. May's return loads save pounds," etc. Comment seems unnecessary.
AT a meeting last week of the London Trade Associations, arranged by the council of the Bond Street Association, it was stated that the reduction of road transport resulting from the rationing of petrol was a handicap to traders. If it were possible in the future to increase the fuel allowance, the benefit should apply first to buses, then to commercial road transport, and, finally, to private cars.
Traders Find Fuel Rationing Hits Their Business
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Graphite Prolongs •--/ claims for colloidal gra Oil Life phite is not only that it im proves lubrication and assists in safeguarding engines from seizure, but that it actually contributes to oil conservation by acting as an anti-oxidant, so improving oil stability and, consequently, prolonging its--effective life.
' operators and drivers Lights Do Not Forobey all the lighting res-tric get Indicators . . . tions except one of the most important; that is, the partial blacking-out of electric traffic indicators (signal arms). The clear portion must not be more than in. wide, and in the shape of an arrow. On one vehicle it took us only two or three minutes to deal with both sides of each arm. The full light given when undimmed is surprising when the night is dark.