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That there are at least two ways of motorizing pedestrians.
No carols yet, although it is only two months to-day to Christmas.
That the state of 'interred hills shows' how tar preserves the road surface.
That the fine weather, although welcome, came too late to help coach-owners.
That it is better to wear out than rot out, but some roads seem to be doing both.
. Someone referring to our "Loose Leaves" feature as "the C.M. Society Jottings."
Of unexpeded things suddenly occurring in the London passenger traffic negotiations.
Of the London taxi-cab as an ugly and expensive relic of antediluvian (i.e., pre-motor-flood) times and regulations. "' Of many motor owners who did not visit the recent Car Show who. will not miss the less crowded commercial one.
That even slow-motion films require quick-motion transport between cinemas, and motor vans can furnish it bet'.er than the railways.
How a speaker at a recent London dinner made a great hit wit:i a "One Hears," but did not acknowledge the source of his "inspiration."
That Sir John Cadman will give a film-lecture on "The Romance of Oil in Persia" at the Woolwich Town Hall on the evening of the 3rd of November, and that his promise to do so arises from Mr. •ShrapneIlSmith's close association with him during the war.
Old claims under new names.
That a good bus service is never off.
That the motor stream .is now "in spate."
Of coaches which are real cresters on hills. That some emergency doors are regularly used when there's no urgency.
That with horses gone, motors have been taking people to the dogs.
Of the pneumatic drill as the blight of modern London's office and street life.
That -the Daily Mail does not like its anti-flapper campaign being termed " fiapdoodle."
That those patrols which 'during use are never in . the pink are really in the best condition.
Of those who apply to turns of road wheels the words "proving their paces and showing their heels."
That its harder to make and keep a good name in commercial motoring to-day than it was during the war.
That the making of the last 18 inches in bus lengths permissive is providing a complete mess-up for everybody.
That everybody in road-engineering circles is glad the 1,929 International Road Congress will be in America and not Monaco.
That November 17th-26th (Olympia Commercial) is already in moat country diaries as a good reason for going to London between those dates.
That the pneumatic transport of powdered and small coal in and near the mines will, before many years' go by, furnish a parallel to pipe-lines for oil. —0 Of a record attendance expected at the banquet in Glasgow of the Royal Scottish Automobile Club on the night of November 4th, at which H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is to be present.
Of bus owners feeling their purses.
Not a word from the railway controversialists.
That cash in the hand beats that in the books.
Of ninny with a well-developed sense of rum mr.