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Of Fords on cushions, but not sofas. "Even a worm will turn "—an axle. Of petrol in excess if not in exceisis. That the C.M.U.A. delivers the goods.
That the chief point in design is cash.
That the Leyland Lion has a mouthful.
That hot oil may be•worse than hot air.
That steamers are reducing their appetite.
That white lines may be directed in future.
That orders for British 'buses are brighter.
More about flat rate for repairs in the U.S.A.
That many bridges are meeting their Waterloo.
That gore light should be thrown on the light van.
. That the Autovan crankshaft "stands up" to its work.
That Worcester's source of transport may be trolleybuses.
That Bedford has too many bicycles. Buses forward, please!
That ,clutch plates are mostly bachelors in new designs.
That anonymity in publicity sometimes connotes duplicity.
Only a " whir " with some tippers; others groan as they Pay up.
Of more clocks on order to go inside motorbuses serving country routes.
Of 1,435,000 passengers carried without accident. Scaremongers, note!
That not everybody put forward to represent. road transport really does so.
That a bus passenger has now less ups and downs in these days of low chassis.
That nowadays a driver is often over or beside his engine but rarely underneath it. • That wherever Sir William Letts goes there is sure to be "Hands off the Road Fund!"
That the Treasury might well say: "Let's leave it alone."
The delight of imitation is universal," says Itr!stotle. But the delight in imitations—in the "just as good" goods—is not -quite so universal.
That the wheel-track of the steerers on Warwick Wright's latest Fageol safety Coaches (now in England, Ireland and Scotland) ia no less than 6 ft. 6 ins. centre to centre of the giant pneumatics. That it's also oil asphalt in rock asphalt.
That "luxuries." May be taxed next year.
That the devil of it is that one man's luxury is another man's necessity.
That Irish roads are less Irish than they were.
That England is "a tight little island "—where money is concerned.
That a sliding tilt• is also what England's south coast is supposed to be doing.
That costs per passenger-seat may show the insufficiency of those per bus-mile.
. That winter hedge-trimming is giving welcome spectacles to many a blind corner.
• —0 That the cement trade's recent attack upon bitumen has been more than patched up.
Of more motorbus owners who desire to stand up to the standing-passenger mess-up.
That the New York exchange on London if unbolstored should he round about $4.00 to the That Mr. Churchill has secured a Cabinet decision in his favourfor a raid on the Road Fund.
• That motOring dentists may before long extract or fill while doubly on the move in travelling consulting TOMS.
That the Roads Advisory. Committee, in discharge of its statutory dirties, has failed to find any surplus in the Road Fund.
That there's quite a different kick—and • no dying one —in steam from that forecasted by some Jeremiahs a few years ago.
That the white line at the foot of a dangerous hill in Sussex has left a much narrower strip of road on the side of down-coming traffic.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer likened to a highwayman who holds up the roads themselves with the cry : "Your mOney anti your life!"
That compulsory third-party insurance for all owners of all classes of road motors may not become an accomplished fact for another five or six years, That the C.M.U.A. is taking a deputation about speeds, axle-weights, six-wheelers and wheel-diameters to Sir Henry Maybury to-morrow (Wednesday).
That more ratepayers' money will he spent at the forthcoming Agricultural Hall Public Works Exhibition (19th to 26th inst.) than at any previous one.