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Of subsidy successes.
That municipal numbers are up.
Of an S.P.A. addition to the Fiat works.
More than one gets of reduced railway rates.
That the end of 'Wembley is not yet knewn.
That there's a lot of Unlicensed licence-dodging.
Of more five-days-a-week bus seasons for scholars.
That the lighting question iS now to be a burning one.
That clean-looking water too often causes priMing.
That there's no occasion for newcomers to be deterred.
That about 150 Leyland buses are in use on the London streets.
Of a hint that West Ham's gl,000 could surely have been better spent.
That the L.G.O. Co. are returning to side number plates for their buses.
That 1920 has. now been dropped from the official title of the Sentinel Co.
That the Car and General 21st anniversary dinner was held five weeks late.
Of requests, even now, for the Dunlop calendar, which is extremely attractive.
That it makes us want to drop everything and go to Brussels again right away.
That the Leeds decision to buy. 200 new tramcars is against the trend of modern municipal policy.
That ,Mr. Hood-Barrs who has taken over the old Scammell and Nephew business, is a live wire.
That the forthcoming Passenger Vehicle Number will have a very handsome front cover showing a Morris bus. 0 That advertisers are quite within their rig-his in embodying caricatures of themselves in their announcements.
That we hope, all the same, that Short Bros. will not thus be led to quote Longfellow.
Of the necessity for economy in man-power of the police force as an excuse for an inability to provide constables to regulate traffic at busy points of intersection.
Of certain objections by municipal authorities to the London Traffic Advisory Committee's list of congested streets upon which no additional buses are to be allowed. 0 That all road motors belonging to the Metropolitan Police are to have registration (identification) plates of thick glass, with letters and numerals formed therein by the sand-bAst process and illuminated from one edge, the light passing from end to end transversely through the mass of the glass. Of weals within wheels.
That pins do not matter in a cushion tyre.
That the weather is multiplying England's waterways.
That Africa requires chain-track vehicles of good design.
Many inquiries regarding the, internal-combustion boiler.
That March didn't exactly come in like Lyons, but it grew nippy very soon after.
That, with Fords running in all directions, the statue isn't even chipped.
Someone saying that the Lancia picture must be the Brighton road on a Saturday.
That, when the load is printers' ink, it stands a chance of being devoured by the public some day.
That, in the V.M.E. Co.'s advertisement, brain waves were distinctly-visible under. " Mr. Vulcan's" hat.
That, when we spoke of the "copper-standard " for motorbuses we did not mean the police regula tions. '
That the wayside coffee shack and theall-night garage do much to lessen the hardships that pass in the night.
That the directors of the L.M. and S. Railway Co. anticipate a trade revival in 1925 and are making their plans accordingly.
Of the Potteries Electrie.Tramway Co.'s pathetic but vain" appeal—" Oh take' the *horrid bus awayl It's cruel to show us things that pay."
That practically new cable-ploughing tackle, handed over to France by Germany, has proved useless, whilst British tackle supplied before the war is still operating successfully.
Some Slogans by the March Hare— You'll go gen'ly on a Henley.
Landseer drew. animals—the Lancia draws buyers.
A four-wheel-brake Conimer—a commer with a full. stop. "
Do you want to be happy? If you have Bean. you are.
The "Tanker "—serves the pub, or the publisher.