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That the driver and the drover don't hit it. Sheep and nasty.
Higher rates,. fewer freights.
Of dumb irons and chattering brakes. Don't spoil the paint with a ha'porth of tar.
When you come to tar, tarry.
There's no plate like Coan's.
(Or, rather, No. plate.) That .speech may be silver ; but silencers are not golden.
That Samuel and Smillie are not writing a modern ized version of " Solf Help."
That Heaven will not help them.
Of chopped Sketches as distant echo of M.T. in the War.
The tramway passenger's dream.—Penny fare anywhere.
The railway companies' slogan.—Embargoes on cargoes.
That the Government makes nothing pay and everybody pay. .
That it Was a Scotsman that " dinna care for tipping bodies."
motor industry. That Lincoln, this week, is the centre of the agriThat R. M. Wright will gather round him a voluble group of trade cronies.
That increased railway rates made the increased price of petrol possible.
Less about giant pneumatics. Is it the lull before the show storm?
That the Benzoic eornpanies are protesting that their 7d. addition was not part of a concerted movement. '
That it was indeed a remarkable coincidence, both as to moment and amount.
That the public won't swallow that " can't afford" story until the distributing companies have ceased to declare huge dividends.
Groans in country villages over the influx of chars-11-bancs, and rejoicings that cornets and drums are taboo.
That the percentage of buyers will be considerably greater, at the October Show, than at the fashion display and sightseer's Mecca in November. Of the Horn scope of special bodies.
Of Helen as the Queen of Tyre—without side on.
Of Nottingham's plans for a new electric power station.
That the motor-coaching industry is only a precocious child.
How Harrogate cloth arrogate to herself the right to be arrogant.
Of few attempts to cultivate colonial custom at this year's exhibition.
That someone (not S. F. Edge) suggests a motorcoach "herd-book." .
" We don't want to strike, but by jingo if we do," sung in.a miner key: That salesmen will do well to stock themselves with facts for the forthcoming Show.
That the coach co.s should aim at co-ordination and cohesion rather than competition.
That tipping gears will display interesting features Of mechanical ingenuity at the Show.
That it is about time that careful attention be given to the luggage-carrying question.
That milady is apt to regard a 14 lb. luggage limit as—the limit That the Daily Mail might do some good to the motor coach movement if it would institute a competition for the design of a ladies' hat of such dimensions as to enable hat boxes to be conveniently carried on the motor coach.
That some designers have given up racking their brains for new mechanical stunts.
That the mechanical novelty, nevertheless, still has value in a selling campaign.
That some makers have abandoned flexible radiator mountings.
That, the colonial buyer will undoubtedly regard such a retrograde policy with disfavour.
That mechanically-operated pumps for inflation purposes will be among the interesting features at the Show.
Of " Improved Slogans," to wit— The Road for the Load.
Get out of the Rut, and Send by Road. Low Freight Rates for Crates. Weigli.t.for the Wagon. Out the Railways 4,nd Cut the Cost. Light Rates for Heavy Weights. Loads for the Road.
We Deliver the Goods.