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Of a Watford schoolboy who wrote, "An oasis is a pull in' for a Scammell."
Of travellers who would give him and the vehicle " full marks."
The query: "What would happen if a user wanted his Bedford engine exchanged in all the five ways available?"
Of hopes emphatically expressed that the arrangements regarding the P.T.A. conference headquarters would be improved on subsequent occasions instead of steadily deteriorating.
That the cost to the participants was out of all proportion to the quality and service afforded—and promised.
That the schoolboy who wrote: "Before there, is a general election all Members of Parliament are bound to dissemble, but once they have been re-elected they resemble themselves again" may not have been far wide of the mark. That a delegation from Soviet engineering unions has visited the Ford works at Dagenham and Battersea Power Station.
That this sort of thing probably does more good towards improving the relationship between the peoples of the world than any amount of political propaganda, of which much is actually harmful.
Of a hope that one day helicopter coaches will go to the coast by road, " hop " the Channel and continue by road on the Continent.
That Shakespeare wrote "Love's Labour Lost" but "the writing on the wall" at recent elections was Labour lovers lost.
That the electors were the gods in whose lap road transport's future lay.
That that grand veteran Mr. E. H. Edwardes, 0.B.E., LI honorary membership of the P
of the bus business, .11., is proud of his new
Of a new Dunlop tubeless tyre for taxis — the 5.75-16 Taxicord.
That a lot of the " missing " heard is due to hit and miss methods of maintenance.
--0— Perhaps the result of a hitand-miss gov'nor? u3I