ONE HEARS
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Of a run on lemons. The call of the Broads.
Will 1928 for heat see 1921 well beat?"
"We are gasping in the House of• Commons.'
" Is steam on the road to enjoy time's revenge?
"What does Manchester want tenders for?"
"Dunno, unless it's because she already has a good supply of toughs."
The "Titan Safety," that many a tight 'un would envy its balance.
That Cumberland shivered and soaked during the southern heat-wave.
Of coach owners' faces outshining the sun.
That sometimes the only clouds are clouds of mosquitoes, but that they can cast quite a gloom over a picnic party.
That the Free State bus-licensing tests are not by any means as stringent as those for Northern Ireland.
Anent the above, that some vehicles not passed . in the northern area have been taken over the border to work.
That the petrol and benzole companies own and use some 8,500 commercial motors and 2,100 staff tars in Great Britain.
That it is to be war to the death in Ulster, and there is every sign that the bus companies do not intend that "the death " shall be theirs.
That • movable seats in some coaches have been known to move too far. — Of a bit of get-to-gethering a-coming between rail and road, and of an intended yachting party in Scottish waters which is not unconnected with a plan of campaign. Of Britain's best used with zest.
" Why do they sendheatwaves from America?" That most bus-fare schedules are now revised in
Of hot-spots everywhere, and few grumblers about it.
That getting-a-move-on is all too often nothing more than a notional idea.
That what looks like taking it lying down may betoken a bargain in view.
Of more headshaking than handshaking still going on amongst railway shareholders.
That the "over yonder" of the Metropolitan Railway has not yet been located:
That much railway signalling is now reminiscent of a game of pool—if not of chalice.
That the 5,000th subscription to the for
1028 was that from Temple Press Ltd.
a- That a Stoke-on-Trent bus driver has been fined for "unlawfully playing on a motor horn."
That the latest attention in luxury coaches takes the form of smart paper fans for the ladies.
Of live good things—the weather, the holidays, new orders, low tyre costs and improving traffics.
That there promises to be a boom within the next few years in applications to Parliament for the extension of municipal boundaries with the object inter alia of securing automatic exteasions of protected motorbus routes.
That whilst in a certain instance the honorific " F.R.S." indicated (at least, apocryphally) a case of "Fees Raised Since," the more recent " G.B.E." conferred by the Ring unon Sir Henry Maybury truly indicated a case of "Great British Engineer."