21 MAY 1942, Page 4

The requisitioning of tyres from laid-up cars is a more

dra step than it sounds. Many people have .taken to small cars in interests of economy and laid up larger ones. They are ex hypol all of them people who legitimately need cars, or will be after end of June, when there will be -no basic allowance and every on the road must be using the so-called " supplementary " rat for which a good case has to be made. But small cars tend to out of order, and repairs.and replacements are increasingly diffic Hitherto there has always been the laid-up car to fall back on in emergency ; it can always be licensed, and its vitals recovered ft the police station where they have been deposited. Tyrelessness end that possibility, and country-dwellers may be left badly strand

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