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The Budget tight is.
" That budgets, like budlets, grow.
Of telling anti-taxation Shrapnelling.
That the wise driver turns no blind eye.
Of roads already well second-quartered.
That Sunic is the tonic desired for Easter.
That Spring is the thing to ring up the coaching curtain.
That the promptest of answers is that to the steering wheel.
That many road surfaces in Italy are little better than stiles.
That there's no greater delusion than the worth of over-inspection.
That few hours fleet slowly when one owns a fleet of commercial motors.
That the 10-ton axle, although on the road, is legally to be left in the air.
That the most important thing nowadays is not where to run but where to stand.
That it's a good thing in motorbus competition to make the opposed beware of thee.
That whilst the piston of a petrol engine has no lifting power, it can do no little shifting.
That more people prefer to leave the road behind them than only footprints in the sand of time.
That he who, as a bus owner, admits economy to be a great revenue usually likes more fares better.
Of not a few country carriers and motorbus oWners who would like to see more weak places stiffened on the roads which they serve.
That the old Spanish proverb, "He who never mixes with the crowd knows nothing," has its applications to some Government Departments.
That the supposed greater performance of electric tramcars in passenger seats per hour past any test point is now increasingly recognized to be on paper only.
Accident statistics in future are likely to be—as they unquestionably should be—conditioned by taking into the calculations the respective mileages of various classes of road and vehicle for the area under consi deration.
That the Milan Road Congress reunion dinner and dance at the Savoy Hotel on Tuesday, March 29th, reflected great credit upon the four men chiefly responsible for arranging it, Messrs. F. J. C. Pollitzer, E. B. Hart, E. Willis and W. T. Graves. That pre-Easter smiles are broadening.
Of storing spare parts so as to spare trouble. That the proof of the padding is in the seating.
That the woman driver in Germany is a rara avis. That each cross-road is one day. to have its own inscription.
That the patriotic steam wagon supports home industries only.
That in connection with the cab trade the public is now the growler. 0 That tops, hoops and hopscotch should be forbidden on the highways. 0 That many parents encourage their children to play in thd street in view of the house rather than in a playground round the corner.
Of four shillings a mile as the,tune that appeals to the motor-coach owner.
Of West Hartlepool saying farewell, without tears, to its tramway system.
That nothing repays care and consideration so unfailingly as a pneumatic tyre.
That it is not the burdens of to-morrow that tend to break the back of the overloaded chassis.
That the "Every van for its load and devil take the driver" point of view is, happily, almost obsolete.
That the gearboxes of to-day have lower voices and fewer vices than was ever dreamed of twenty years ago. 0 That the heavy lorry driver may be "the real gentleman of the road," but the horse driver is responsible for more hold-ups.
That passengers of above average height can be more comfortably accommodated in the average bus than those above average width.
That lists for the R.A.C. Derby Sweepstakes will open at the end of April, and that the first prize in the larger one—f1 per ticket, with unlimited entry—is expected to reach £4,000.
That long-distance bus through fares are cheaper than the aggregate fares on a series of short-distance buses covering the same route—in other words, the less you keep changing the more change you keep.
That, when coke can be bought at the neighbouring gasworks at 27s. per chaldron and carted for an additional 5s.. the local coal yard, which quotes 38s. per chaldron delivered, cannot expect to be inundated with orders.