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That not every mandarin goes a-motoring.
Of some motorbus fleets nearly all Hall-Lewised.
That one test of an industry is average dividend rate.
That commercial motoring will double itself within 10 years.
That the sediment bulb is not included in Dutch growers' catalogues.
That keen international competition is being experienced for bus and coach orders in the Irish Free State.
That British builders are there faced with French, American and German competition.
Of an epidemic a burst water Mains in Sussex and of those who attribute it to the recent passing of the Tanks.
That it is all right for motorbuses to be " knocking insistently," as Shrappie says, so long as they don't do it with their engines.
Of free-wheel transmission to be standardized by some makers in conjunction with an automatic sprag device and simple provision for reversing.
That now that the roads are up round Victoria Station it is almost impossible to make sure of being in time for a train unless you aim at catching the one before it.
Fan belts when one shouldn't.
That dazzle time is coming again.
That it's a great asset to be shock proof. _ That body-care may be worth pence per mile. Somebody asking if hops are carried in skips. That "prices from" can refer to definite series.
That there's seldom anything patchy about giant pneus.
By all means supercharge coach engines, but not coach passengers. 0 That in the haulage game a cut is a shuffle and never makes a good deal.
Of many who prefer all-blue electric bulbs in their headlights, and of others who stick to half-yellow.
• That the wise tramway' manager seeks increasingly to get away from his rail limitations by motorbus.
Louder claims repeated that heavy-oil engines for road transport can now stick it without either sticking or stinking.
Of a reader's wife who thought our sketch of the Lees-Bradner method of grinding gear teeth was a futurist drawing of the latest coiffure.
That annual renewal orders from established provincial motorbus undertakings in Britain now exceed three thousand chassis and still more bodies.
That Mr. W. J. McCormack, of Dunlops, is the new Worshipful Master. of the Coachmakers? Company, with Sir Edward Manville as his Senior Warden, That finance for heavyoil engines is not the last word.
That it's the full page that brings the full order-book.
That there will be a tramway S•aUve qui peat before very long.