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"Long live King Pneu!"
Of snakes in the railway grass.
Of Cabinet second thoughts on Second Readings. That quick cash still commands delivery and terms.
Of make-up efforts by the railway troupe to play :heir parts of injured innocence.
That it's too often only money that talks on private Bills at the Parliamentary Bar.
That a job got by accident may be a good thing, but that most accidents are bad jobs.
That men who return to Britain after many years spent abroad or hR the colonies notice most pink legs and motorbuses.
And feels it's regrettable that neither SS. (East Woolwich) nor S.G. (Kingswinford) is yet in the House of Comrnens.
That 'independent road transport" means those lorries and wagons which are not tied to any particular trade, industry or interest.
That Mr. Shrapnel-Smith made a clinking microphoneless speech in response to the toast of "The Visitors" at the recent annual dinner of R Division (including Woolwich) of the Metropolitan Police. at the Connaught Rooms, when a company of 746 was seated.
That fox oil almost HERE'S ONE squeaks.
Of Tillings going in for more Batting.
That petrol's bottom peak is not far off. That Lord Cushenden's job is no cushy one.
That working out a flat rate is sometimes uphill work. 0 That everything comes to him who waits—even ths opportunity to cross a one-way street.
That there is no rule excluding Scammell three-way tippers from trips along one-way streets.
That "Easy come and easy go" is the message of the low-frame bus or coach to its patrons.
That the public pays the piper, so it shouldn't let the railways have the moropoly of calling the tune.
That without properly made fteldpaths it is almost as difficult to exercise one's dog in the country in winter as it is in town. _ Pedestrians in rural districts sighing for concrete public footpaths, because the roads are impossible and the fields are impassable.
Of a wholly new method of stopping periodic engine vibration from reaching the transmission discovered by a prominent British motor manufacturer.
That very small percentages of Ethyl ether properly mixed and held dissolved in low-grade petrols will lead to quite a different power development from that given by lead tetraethyl.
How a ticket inspector who retires this summer after 30 years' service at a London railway terminus intends to employ the first weeks of his leisure exploring London, which is to him terra incognita.
Of the raids on the Road Fund hitting back.
Of chassis which account for huge smileage.
That limit-exceeding is not always "speeding."