One Hears
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That the nickel people might adopt the American term "Gimme a nickel" as a catch phrase.
That die-hards who persist in the belief that tractors are useless on heavy clay should see them at work in Sussex,. —3
That a ' lick" of white paint is advisable on gateposts that have to be negotiated by vehicles when lighting is reduced to the minimum.
That the new by-pass will take the crawl out of Crawley.
That Dundee's passenger transport appears to be " jammy."
Of some asking if toughened glass is available for spectacles.
Optimistic queries as to who will receive the millionth Morris-Commercial.
That it is road transport that enables the fruit farmer to see the fruits of his labour.
That the C.M.U.A. visitors to a sparking-plug factory voted the trip champion.
• That farming may have declined lamentably, but we now have the power to silence its lament.
That it was by no means a " vet" Show, except in the sense of weather conditions on two days. ' Of Kennedy and Kempe being asked at the " Royal " why they were "sacking Hopper."
That actually the words were descriptive of a special machine.
That most of the " heads " who attended last week's meeting of the Institution of British Agricultural Engineers could be referred to as dames of silence.
That the vacuum servo continues to prove its reliability.
That Aberdeen is to beat Glasgow for streamlined trams.
That putting the tractor on air has put some farmers on velvet.
That since road transport opened new markets, haulage means far more to the farmer.
That Mr. T. Peacock, president of the N.F.U., spread a truly fine tale in our " Royal " issue.
That S.T.R.'s remarks on hire-purchase do not mean that he believes in lower purchase.
That a levelling of fines for similar offences would not balance the effects on those paying them.
That darkened buses might prove better "love nests" than the passenger shelters referred to at Blackpool.