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That twins usually live longer—on rear wheels.
Of a tractor tipping wagon being ordered for cemetery work.
Praise of the all-weather coaches following last week's sunshine.
That a generic term is required for the compression-ignition engine.
That " comig" is too much like comic.
Of increasing interest in road-transport prospects, both overseas and over rails.
Of a North London coachbuilder quoting July delivery, and not a week earlier.
A stick-in-the-mud referring to roads above the railways as "a Jules Verne fancy."
The reminder that many Jules Verne fancies have now become facts.
Of many corporations acting with abandon where their tramways are concerned.
That building bus-routes in Spain should be more profitable than building castles there.
That vhatever may be the cause of "heel-and toe" wear, it is the user who foots the bill. , That much air used for grousing about tyre makers might be better employed inside the tyres.
That coach proprietors don't care if Easter be a stationary or movable feast so long as fine weather for it is a fixture.
That it is a warm winter which makes no work for welders.
That roads may have a great bearing upon the election result. Cheering prophecies of a hot summer. Of bus revenues literally snowed under.
Everybody asking whether bus fares are going up.
Of a great outburst of road-improvement activity.
That laundry-Van drivers are never short of a duster.
Of those who think that horse-drawn vehicles should pay a super-tax.
That some motorcyclists pat themselves on the back for climbing hills which buses traverse daily.
A London bus driver saying that he hasn't properly thawed out since the last anti-cyclone.
That, whereas the railways are self-centred, road transport's motto is "each for haul and haul for each."
That, in frosty weather, roadmen have to make a little sand go such a long way that often their labour is in vain, Of a driver who cannot use an automatic windscreen wiper because it mesmerizes him and be forgets to watch the road.
That some small garages have no rubber flap on the pipe of the petrol pump to keep rain and condensing mist out of the petrol tank.
That it is a short-sighted policy as such " economy" is liable to alienate custom: Of more special insurance iates for no-claim owners, and that the big offices regard it as a case of "picking the eyes out of their business."
That blind corners make coroners busy.
The Prophecy that in the future sky-scraper roads may be one of the sights of Britain.