One Hears
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That the cloven hoof is to be barred from the Royal Show.
That it might be as well to bar it elsewhere.
That many valuable export orders were booked at Olympia.
That Pickfords may be one of the pickings.
That only asses could assess our roads, in their present state, as assets.
That price-rising may be hair-raising but the worry of it can produce baldness.
Hopes that this may make workers go bald-headed for production.
That when industry becomes the catspaw of politics, fair play hasn't a dog's chance.
That 10 coach loads from London formed part of a crowd of 10,000 at the "Donkey Derby" in a Sussex village.
Of an artist who said of a picture in a recent issue "The beastly lorry spoiled a charming Turneresque view of the Thames."
That the old rule "a place for everything and everything in its place " is still the first factor in factory planning, both for the buildings and their equipment. That some hauliers may go out on the levee. —if one listens—and sometimes it is unprintable.
That a modern nine-plate battery is as efficient as a pre-war 11-plate type.
That those who build on a corner site should endeavour not to blind corner sight.
That blind corners often give work to coroners.
That the tram v. bus wrangle has now boiled down (or up) to blocked traffic arteries v. blocked breathing passages.
That on March 31, A licences numbered 40,448, Contract A 13,095, B 62,690 and C 808,868—a total oc 925,101.
That tyres fitted to the buses operating on the Great Orme have a potential life of 5,000 miles, the tyre cost being 3d. per mile That many who were quite contented to see hauliers robbed of their jobs by nationalization are now indignant lest they lose their own through its reversal.