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That age usually drops rage.
" Steady, steady; let's get ready."
That a rod's often as good as a link.
Of creosote making concrete waterproof.
That too many prophets may cause losses.
That no inspection can ensure perfection.
Of the upper and the nether Morris-stone.
That it's an ill wind that blows a bus over.
That an idle train helps the bus workshop.
That not even a museum wants an old tram.
That too many punches on it disfigure a route.
Of a good demand for drivers' winter clothing.
Of one group going every way but the right one.
Of cushions and pneumatics to be more put on.
That condensers may send too much to hot wells.
Of unlucky dips for Wembley guarantors' pockets.
That not everything has improved since the 29th ult.
Of both apparent and real inotorbus-route exten
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That they want more C.M.U.A, members, to make
6,000.
Of pennies saved as surer than pennies to be gained.
Of hedging tramWay managers edging towards motorbuses.
That the horse-van driver is known as "the man on the box."
—0 That his better protected cousin on the motorvan might be called "the man in the box."
Also, that his mate, who delivers the goods, feels like the jack-in-the-box."
That all is not dangerous that is communal, e.g., the motor omnibus for all to use.
That Commander Armstrong, the R.A.C. Secretary, has been taking a rest cure south of Gib.
That in some mechanical road transport there are still too many who live out of wasteful operation.
That one may look in the mouth for the gift of public speaking and find in many cases that it fails to come out.
That Sir W. joynson-Hieks would be a good Transport Minister, but that he can be most helpful where he is.
That whilst the Butt case temporarily took all the ▪ butter off the C.IVf.U.A bread, the Association's coming-of-age banquet showed no signs of starvation. That, when trade's slack, loads lack.
That not every haulier can afford to be a cut above a cut..
That not all are words that hit their object.
— 0-Of motorbus shake-outs as well as shake-hands. .._c—
That Fowlers, of Leeds, are out for golden eggs.
Of dwindling traction-engine totals.
Of Hull joining Hessle in CI bus hustle.
Of motor coaches with wine-cooler wheels.
Of a stick-on-route warning to Stoke-on-Trent buses.
That wireless in the hat must be worse than a bee in the bonnet.
That the best chassis are not built in a day— or for a day, either.
Farmers complaining that one man's meat is another man's profit.
That to the motor haulier quoting for a job a miss is not so good as a mile.
That there now is one-wheel, each-wheel, fourwheel, all-wheel and no-wheel driving.
Plymouth teaching its children how to run over crossings without being run over crossing.
That the truer fitting of the motor manufacturer and repairer is the lament of the oil merchant.
From a " lay " reader—that the only funny advertisem.ents in the C.M. now are those that are unintentionally so.
That the red-on-yellow. Shell sign looks quite alarming over a garage when the first letter has been inadvertently (?) obliterated.
Of less headroom, in fact, available under some bridges in winter than in summer, due to frost effects on the mass of the road crust.
Congratulations to Torquay Corporation on making the provision of rear-view mirror and speedometer a licensing condition for motor coaches.
From Lancashire glass manufacturers that it is thanks to the employment of motor vehicles that so few casualties occur in the transport of the transparent.
That there's money in the inotorcoach tours to France, Italy and Switzerland only if they're well run by a chap who is a man at the job—such as Chapman, of .Eastbourne.