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Of Dunlop's stronger strength. Of holiday rests badly needed.
Of tick-tack about Road Fund odds.
The sighs of 'won' gears grinding by.
That the life of a bus.is its day repeated. Of none so kind as those who will not fee.
Britons now expect every bus to be on duty, Of bright rays needed to raise bright revenues.
Of preparations in London for express tramcars.
That when the rain's away the tripper Can play.
Of efforts to hustle opinions on the draft Road Traffic
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That no good motorbus stays too long when it pays a call.
That although oil creeps, it will hereafter make the running.
That upper-Cylinder lubrication is to receive more attention.
That the wealth of the motorbus owner is necessarily of the hand.
That bus anti coach proprietors are almost ready to be sun-worshippers.
Regrets too late about missed new-route opportunities taken by others.
• Of nobody who can place an ultimate value on a 'Churchillian promise of 120,000,000.
That Mr. Shrapnell-Smith had an open-air audience of nearly 5,000 at East Woolwich recently.
That the .Highways and Bridges Committee of the Cheshire County Council is not unprogressive.
Of Helsby Bridge regularly carrying very much heavier loads than are intimated by its notices.
That those who blend petrol derived by cracking or topping from Russian kerosene should not decry Russian petrol.
That Mr. F. G. Bristow will, on-November 22nd next, complete 21 years of . active and vigilant C.M.U.A. service.
That if the railway companies press too hard about bridge restrictions they will do themselves much More harm than good.
That Clovelly is the only village no motorbus has yet attempted to traverse. The .donkey remains the one means of locomotion, and a nine-stone limit has just been imposed on the loads carried.
How a passenger, who, wanting something to read to while away th3 journey, had helped himself to one of a bunch of leaflets hanging from the ceiling of a country bus, was smprised to find it was a time and fare table, for which he was expected to pay twopence. That not every small bus lasts.
That it's the common penny that can make uncommon profits.
That there is no Voronoff operation for rejuvenating worn-out chassis.
The fear expressed that limiting the size of Motor coaches may mean higher -fares.
Of those who would nuke willingly guarantee to "keep smiling With Kelly's" mascot girl.
Queries concerning the reason for the comparatively high purchase price of the average taxicab.
-Complaints from the buyer of .a much-worn secondhand van that its slogan seems to be "Eat more petrol."
That the country fair season' has brought many shows on the road—as shows on the road, by the way.
That "Vox populi, vex Del" is a saying that evidently makes no appeal to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. 0 Of those who think the new L.C.C. tramway scheme, involving the expenditure of i326500, is simply throwing good money after bad.
It said, anent the new proposals relating to the size of motor coaches, that such vehicles are only too big because the roads are too little, That in the modern luxury coach the fittings, plate and linen (not to mention the wine-cellar) need insuring as well as the vehicle itself.
That the motorcycle sidecar demonstration has avoided side-slip in Liverpool and the trams that still decelerate traffic in Manchester.
Someone asking if the organizers of the TynesideLondon service are not rather optimistic in reckoning on the 'maintenance of an average speed of almost 24 miles an hour.
That, in their complaints concerning inadequate bridges, we find heavy vehicle owners in the anomalous position of -the strong Protesting against the tyranny of the weak.
That water sports are all right in their legitimate place—at the seaside or onthe river—but Londoners did not appreciate being forced to participate in them during last week's great storm,
That Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., and his railwaymen are more disturbed at the discovery of the com-. mercial motor than he was over the loss of the parrot he brought back from South Africa.
That some hotel proprietors in North Devon have their motorcar's licetased as hackney carriages and carry their guests on tours at motor coach fares. Prices are the same, but the ordinary car in Devonshire lanes and hedgerows gives decidedly less view.