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30th October 1928
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That there's more three-way tipping on racecourses than on roads.

Someone asking why a Halley with a trailer isn't called a Halley's Comet.

That more attention should be paid to connections between country bus routes.

Of no efficient dimmer for sun-gIare on tarred roads after a shower of rain.

••That buses that meet at the cross-roads are beloved of•the travelling public.

That you can't fare many miles in England nowadays without seeing a motorbus.

Of a mixed air, internai.combustion and steam power system a a new prime mover for fail, road, sea and stationary use. • That no fewer than 193 vans and lorries took part in the first Belgian commercial vehicle parade recently held in Brussels.

That every man who -owns a motor coach or bus should take a trip in his vehicle to make surethat passengers. are as comfortable as he himself would like to be when travelling.

How a van, bound for Brighton with a cargo of scrap metal, made such a din and clatter that its driver did not know he was shedding samples of his freight—including. such unconsidered trifles as a crankshaft—all along WS route through Sussex.

That the consignment niust have been considerably under weight when it reached its destination. That some Manchester taxis are looking blue.

• • That some Manchester taxi-drivers prefer Red Seal to Blue Label: That the Blue Labels are a good advertisement for Messrs. Threlfall's ales.

That ,Messrs. Bass are not worrying, however, because they get an equally good advertisement from four-wheel brakes.

That there are more-taxis with a blue label on the windscreen than with a red triangle on the back Mudguard.

Of no owner wishing to hear that his vehicle has been 'a gate-crasher.

Of very few instances of reduced profits during 1928 from motorbus operation. • That "crude oil" to the public is .not the same as to the petroleum technologist.-.

That the first fabric-covered railway , carriage in this country has been put into service on the Southern RailWay. between London and . Bourne Month, Drivers urging that signposts should be lowered or illuminated.

That at present those who have not an easily detachable lamp have to do the undignified monkeyon-a-stick trick to find out which is the road they want.

• ----0 That it isn't every driver who has the agility to climb up a signpost.