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That it's a good plan to Select bad business for the other fellow's book.
Mancastrians asking if Leylands are trying to compete with Belle Vue.
That Sussex farm hands very seldom enable one to pees a led horse on the led side.
That it is a wise insurer (or should it he insuree?) who understands his own policy.
• A driver remarking, re the Parsons chains "All at sea" advt. " Gosh ! I've had dreams like that."
That a waiter is satisfied with a tip equal to 10 per cent. on the bill, but ask a taxi-driver if he is!
That his answer will be in the informative. Of a heavy with a 15-in, strip of solid tyre -flying
out and slapping the road at every, turn of the wheel. That if motor warnings are not to be allowed in certain areas extra police will be needed to "keep cave." — A lady reader's comment on our illustration of the varying length spring—" Gracious! What a whippy umbrella!"
The suggestion that, .in . a double-deck bus to • accommodate both sleeping and waking passengers, the sleeping bunks should be on the upper deck.
• That, as flat-dwellers know to their sorrow, the scraping of feet overhead can banish sleep.
That, according to a daily paper, the L.N.E.R. has ordered 24 six-cylinder two-seater Thornycroft buses. That makes the seating capacity of the whole fleet 48!
That Leylands have LO sea-lions yet.
From S.T.R., that insurance-is not so simple as it seems.
That several Belfast bus circles remain unsquared.' .
That the greater the ton-miles per unit the lower the incidence of texation., Of horse and motor insurance running together.
That one of the slowest things in London life is a taxi driver finding change. • Of wood-block surfaces as the greatest of traffic thnewasters in road repairing.
That there was a hot old time at Brighton on the 18th, when the old-timers were there.
That the the wind being well up in the tramway world, motorbus sales are spreading there, That it's wiser to have a plan for mechanical road transport than to trust to luck with it.
That there's got to be some homologation in respect of Northern Ireland's motorbus licences.
That founder-members of the R.A.C. are now reduced to 85 on paper and to 45 capable of going on parade.
That, whilst the C.M.U.A. membership "touched bottom" last December, it has been Steadily advancing since then.
Of the Tilling and B.A.T. Co.'s ordinary shares as the attraction of the motorbus market for capital appreciation.
That there's no need in practice to put a stamp on any letter addressed to an inspector or collector of taxes or to a postmaster or telephone manager.
That in reading Road Fund Annnal Reports one has to distinguish between grants "indicated," "approved," " made " or "paid," and that any one sum may do the Men of Harlech stunt for as many as five or six years before it completes this merrygo-round.
That money seldom walks.
That losses stimulate changes of method.
That America still believes in the full bond.
Of jockeying for position on many bus routes.
That each double' decker carries. its own overheads.