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Of much interest in the crude oil tractor. That it's a lucky van that gets no overloading.
The weather prophets promising us a foggy winter.
Still of some country bus seats that make one think of "riding on a camel in the desert."
That railway lines permanently disfigure a beautiful landscape, but the motorbus passes across it and leaves no scar.
Of a suggestion from a wireless enthlisiast that delays at terminal points could be reduced by smearing them with vaseline.
That there is something wrong (probably myopia) with the grocer who says his store does not need a motorvan for its deliveries, Re hooting one's traffic signals :—" Why not go the whole hog—give the driver a loud-speaker and let him shout his intentions? "
Rumours that the taxi-cabby's manners are improving, and the suggestion that he has been taking lessons from the bus conductor—and driver.
The cynical remark that the man who invents a fog-piercing lamp may make no money, but whoever puts it on the market will reap a golden harvest.
That. the tractor trials at Ardington made many converts to mechanized farming.
That unjustified invasions of bus routes will no longer be the sport of local licence-pullers.
Of pedestrians, expressing great indignation at the prospect of being subjected to the same rules as vehicular traffic in London's "roundabouts." That old maids are said to envy wheels because they all have hubs.
That water on brakes will reduce many a good factor of efficiency.
That much money is still wasted on patents for devices which are obviously doomed to failure.
That as well as the Area Commissim-ss there are to be Central Appeal Commissioners, or their equivalent.
That parking-place autocrats expect nothing less than 6d., even if a vehicle be left for only a few minutes.
That there seems often to be more money in the job than is justified by the service rendered.
That second-hand value is a good indication of the trade opinion regarding the efficiency of any make of commercial vehicle.
That modern hoppers go to Kent and back by motor coach, but the old-fashioned flea still seems to prefer travelling by train.
Of a lady who said that she had had a lifelong "experience of pressing plants" and had kept books full of them, but was afraid she was too old for the post of works manager.
That the best booking offices accept responsibility for payments due from their sub-agents.
That the long-distance coach obviates that bugbear of the railway traveller — "All change here."
Some curiosity expressed as to the resolutions likely to be adopted at the Washington Road Congress.