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Of dust and the cuckoo.
Of those who wish the one would choke the other.
Coach proprietors saying—" And now, what about Whitsun?"
Of buds coming out and "Buds" (and other guys) coming over, 0 That two's company and three's none round about many bus-times.
Of those who think a set date for Easter not half so essential as a set-fair barometer.
That when the price of any commodity falls it is bound to strike a tax and bounce up again.
That there is no recorded instance of a Budget so framed as to meet with general approval.
That this Budget is no record-breaker.
That it is amazing how often Americans coming over to do England get done by confidence tricksters.
Of the lady who asked why someone had a silly question like A.M. I. M.E.? written after his name.
That despite the increase of motorbuses and electric trains in Berlin, a single-horse tramway is still in use in one of the subtirbs.
That a New Zealand commercial motor user who has recently returned home from a trip to England considers that the London motorbus driver is the most courteous driver on the road and the bus driver in Sydney, N.S.W., the most discourteous.
That it came as a surprise to many to learn that, whereas 23 years ago 65 out of every 100 commercial goods motors were owned by haulage contractors, barely 35 are to-day, the other figure now applying to those who carry their own traffics only.
That it's hard to add up steam lorries, tractors, traction. threshing, ploughing, rolling and other locomotive road engines to as many as 20,000 for the whole of Britain, even when one includes in the reckoning those exempt from licence duties and those covered by trade licences.
When you're in the bus, With a train to catch, It seems to be in for a dawdling match. Doesn't it crawl?
When you want the bus And you're giving chase, It seems to be in for a Brooklands race. Doesn't it fly? That Michelin was ready. That many a load lies low.
Of kites and rattles in naotordom. That not all that's spread is butter. Yet another cock-a-doodle-Churchill-do. That much talk of economy is only bluff.
That patronage sticks to the deserving bus. That good fuel is more than miles per gallon.
Of strange things done. for the sake of unity. That the local authorities have been flouted.
That nobody had hazarded 112,000,000 at one fell sw That the Ministry of Transport will take some dissecting.
Of stern opposition to any unnecessary going astern on the road. 0 That it's high time there was a really good motorcoaching film made.
That bus and coach traffics are encouragingly heavier nowanights.
That there's little more than a kick left in the Road Fund at the moment.
Of the use of the Froth Blowers' anthem for motortruck advertising purposes.
That a Maidstone firm is advertising a motor van "which your errand boy can drive."
That it must not be forgotten that the boy must be over 17 years of age.
From several country mice in the bus world who wish they were ferrets in the bus-warren of the Midlands.
That there are those who denied until quite recently that the light van was more than 50 per cent. of, all commercial motors.
That the light van will continue to increase its numerical predominance.
That the railways are insisting upon firms from whom they buy supplies giving them at least an equal turnover in freight by rail.