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Of uneasy turns and starts.
Thai everybody's down to brass tacks.
Of sixes but not sevens in bus engines.
of novices imagining any old bus will do.
That 1927 is going strong for an 11-day old.
That fog bearings are usually badly taken.
That good brakes can never act too quickly.
That the once busy B-types are nearly gone.
Of traction companies temporarily distracted.
Of the Vaughan-Williams musical motor horn.
That some baby buses are costly little things.
That most jacks can to-day he almost always in the box. 0 That football teams and results increasingly travel by motorbus. 0 Of the railway companies up on their hind legs again for another brief ramp.
That it takes a very friendly 'policemen to regard a hit from behind as a hacking-into charge.
Of derangements consequential on the coal stoppage unseIting more than a few hire-purchase arrangements.
Regrets from some quarters that it takes time in the cummercial motor world to get a phase with its currents.
That expansion of British trade and employment is more than ever before recognized to depend upon Empire development: That Scammell Lorries, Ltd., has lately supplied a number of 2,000-gallon flexible six-wheeled tankers to an Austrian oil company.
That some corporations are not yet aware that omnibuses, municipally or privately owned, are run primarily for the convenience of the public.
That the proximity of a motorbus service is now one of the advantages offered to applicants replying to " Servants Wanted" advertisements.
That "Catch 'cm young" is tlfe object of a provincial bus company which has decided to introduce a scheme to train lads leaving school to be drivers.
The heavyweight Doth aggravate The public's sorrows , Much of late.
For smoke and steam Do from it stream, And soot and grit It cloth emit.
When good coal comes, Then up go thumbs. Of " roads " in China.
Of the six-millionth Zenith.
Of British trade bobbing up.
Of some too severe cuts to be revised.
The satisfied purring of certain cushion tyres.
Of Scammells helping to increase the Morris output.
Of roads up, rates up, and peckers clown in consequence.
Of holiday railway-travellers packed 18 in a compartment.
That in coach and bus bodywork experience tells by Its silence.
Of a Plymouth Rotarian who is a staunch champion of the tramways.
Of hedging and ditching, also of ditching through neglect of hedging.
Many comments on our editorial suggestion re paying the horse to keep away.
Take care of your driver and he's more inclined to take care of your interests.
That those who once tour the Lakes on Pape's coaches become confirmed Papists.
That there is a good demand for second-hand lorries in the farming districts of the Irish Free State.
That one must suffer acutely from claustrophobia not to appreciate a covered-top bus in snowy weather.
In connection with taxation, that a few pounds off the correct side of the scale saves many pounds sterling.
That solid tyres run at high speeds sometimes burst through the internal pressure of gases generated by the heat developed.
That one of the Harrogate and District Road Car Co.'s Commer buses, although 18 years old, is like Charley's Aunt, still running, As a sign of the times that preduction of the model 801 A.D.C. chassis is suspended, so that more attention can be devoted to six-wheeled buses.
That the only thing Mr. Tom Wolsey, of the Tilling, East Kent, Southdown and other successful bus boards, doesn't know about a chassis before he orders it is the registration number it will carry.