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Of Mersey sapping and mining.
That good driving needs no rushy That the 1927 Order will eXtend that of 1904. That traffic merry-go-rounds have come to stay. That fog is the-last thing wanted, snow the next.
That industry pays debts; indolence increases them.
That the Churchill is harder than the Nelson touch.
The growing belief that the London "Jixi " is a myth.
That if you enjoy your work you are in the right job.
That an oil pump should have a guaranteed circulation, That none but the best of fuels deserve the steam' wagon grate. • That there's money in brake linings as well as in the use of them.
Of coal distillation experiments and developments in many directions.
That the C.M. will be at the Advertising Exhibition at Olympia in July.
It generally admitted at last that the new era is to be that of the' rigid-frame six-wheeler.
That Harrington's, of Brighton, have a number of handsome saloon coaches in course of construction.
That tramway track abandonments in favbur of motorbuses are announced from Oldham and WaiSall.
That whilst there's to be no going back in commercial motoring, it's clear that reversing cannot be forbidden.
That those who jeer at the six-wheeler as "The 0-21118 pet" may some day see it established as everybody's pet.
Surprise expressed that the 10-ton load on a single axle is already found to he within the pneumatic sphere of 'influence.
From a reader in New South Wales that the rigidframe six-wheeler is bound to he in great demand there When people wake up to its possibilities.
That experiments are being 'Made in Canada with cheap qualities of honey as an admikture with alcohol as an anti-freezing mixture for the radiators of motor vehicles.
The lady-driver's plaint—
He made such a fuss . When wrecked his old lorry.
A gimcrack old bus I-Ie made such a fuss.
The ill-mannered cuss!
I'd distinctly said " Sorry."
He made such a fuss When I wrecked his old lorry.
Of service on the surface. "The more we are together.''
Of multi-wheelers as comfort multipliers.
Hardly a sound from the Super-Sentinel bus.
Of what-to-see -signs and what-not-to-see warnings. That the overload in the end becomes the overlord.
A good slogan:—" The quality goes in before the name goes on."
:That hay carts invariably exceed the legal limit for load width.
How experience has exploded the " burst-tyredangef " bubble.
That February may not have been fill-dyke, but it certainly, wasn't fill-pothole.
That many roads, after recent rains, are a washout where driving comfort is-concerned:
Someone asking if road transport is meekly to pay the piper, while railroad interests call the tune.
Of extended holiday trials in Lancashire of an important new suspension system for road vehicles.
That the growing Brazilian preference for European buses is causing American manufacturers " furiously to think."
That each dear thousand pounds in hand in any October can usually be made to produce two more buses or coaches by the following March.
How railside advertisements for goods from one British Possession cheapen another British possession— to wit, the beauty of its countryside.
That in some parts of Sussex the sudden sinking or the road level to surface-drain grids constitutes a real danger tq trafficlorced to the kerbside.
That the absence of smoky tunnels counts for much with the travelling public in favour of the open road, compared with the rail, in some areas.
From a disgruntled dweller upon a Sussex main road, that, in summer, motor coaches form a two-way escalator up to London and down to Brighton.
Of regular and systematic road services for goods all
over the Midlands, with the metto:—
Prompt Delivery.
Quick Despatch.
Careful Handling.