ONE HEARS
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That the Bat is beginning to spread its wings.
An old motorist asking the way to the open road. —0 That buses follow builders and sometimes vice versa.
That 26-32 seaters are the most popular sellers to-day. . 0 Doubts as to whether safeguarding will be safe for long.
Some bright lad suggesting free wheels for camshaft drives!
That the three best types of balance are static, dynamic and bank.
• Of good possibilities for bus services on London's new arterial roads.
That perfectly engineered roads would result if railroads were converted to highways.
Of a schoolboy botanist who described a red currant as "the stuff they use for tail lights."
That the Road. Fund grant is to be withheld from local authorities who do not guarantee safety surfaces to their new roads.
That, amongst the coach-owning fraternity, the drawing-up of attractive holiday tour programmes leaves no wits untried at Whitsuntide.
Of even fewer fours in the States.
"Not a seat left for our Whitsun runs."
That where there's swill there's sway.
That many a crank is regarded as an eccentric. Of higher fares on low-frame buses.
That greed is often the seed of excessive speed.
Of smart chassis agitating for new spring gaiters.
That Sussex is going " all-out " for concrete roads.
That we must achieve road safety first and then make it last.
Of daily inter-town services with bookings as far ahead as August That progressive eompanies do not have figureheads on letter headings.
That after March little interest is shewn in North African coach tours.
Preliminary announcements regarding a revolutionary steam-generating system.
That concrete surfacing on steep hills gives much better adhesion than pessimists prophesied.
That some would-be M.P.s find the Road Fund rather a sore problem in their constituencies.
Someone referring to the Guy six-wheeled armoured car shown in last week's issue as "St. Paul's on wheels."
Of more road-hoggers than kerb-huggers.
Of small hoards made out of big hoardings.
That cleaning the air cuts down the deposit.
Of a general awakening to the coach-station idea.