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"Is it fair to write of 'The A.A. 4d.' on petrol?"
That the petrol tax is taking much more than a lot of getting back.
That the 'Churchill pro-railway programme of steeper charges by road is already becoming a slippery slope.
That whilst the Clerk of the Weather cannot himself be courted, he may, and often does, account for many people being county courted.
That no commercial-motor owner can properly object to paying the true highway cost related to his traffic if the money so raised is applied to the roads.
That the Chancellor of the Exchequer how realizes a little belatedly that the higher bus fares due to his tax on petrol clearly add to the cost of living.
That Gen. S. S. Long (Levers) and Mr. W. H. Gaunt (Lyons) were amongst the best opposition witnesses before the Joint Committee on the Railway Bills.
That cleanliness is often next' to oiliness.
Of London's quiet hours now much restricted.
Of those who think this gusty weather disgusting weather.
The remark—" The weather seems extraordinarily brittle this summer." Of July sales in July gales.
That it is still " Summer Time' by Act of Parliament.
That orange Teel dropped on a bus step is worse than on the pavement.
That circumstances alter cases, and only the fool never changes his mind.
Too often of 'railway stations miles from the villages whose names they bear.
That strangers are "had," but villagers depend on the motorbus. 0 That the bulk of the living raw material for the average seaside resort char-h-bancs owner is brought to him by railway.
That the average mean load throughout the working day for all commercial goods vehicles is 25 cwt. per vehicle in America and only 20 cwt. in Great Britain.
That colour is not always kind.
That, thanks to mechanical road transport, fruit and vegetables have a hand-to-mouth existence.
That, judging by recent observation of a horse mowing machine, It isn't only the tractor driver who has a liver-rousing perch.