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Through the wheels of industry.
That they still crowd on at Croydon.
Of roads that remain wheel-absorbers.
That coal is really down in the dumps.
That the single-decker keeps up its pecker.
• Of many keen to swap fog days for hog days.
That tinned sheets are keeping things warm.
Of a crisis upon Britain's coke-oven industry.
That it's daily breakdowns that fill some garages.
That there's to be less motorbus push and shove.
That New York found its ice-jam by no means sweet.
Of paraffin prices no longer touching those for petrol.
That no motoring body will stand for a new h.p. rating.
That the earlier a type the higher the fuel consumption.
That there's no holding benzole and next to no getting it.
That Scotland Yard is still unduly shy of rigid six-wheelers.
That East is East and West is West Ham, but the twain have met with tramway losses).
That the owner-driver of a single vehicle hates docking his takings by docking his "bus."
The pessimistic suburban highway's complaint" Life's just one tram string after another."
That 2d. a mile is a fair maximum for any country motorbus service, and 10. for any in a town.
That half the motorbuses in 'London will have approved covers to their top-decks within two years.
That these weather changes are making people use many four-letter words which denote exasperation.
That Guildford may ohly be on the Wey, but it can boast at least one motor factory that has " got there."
"I'm feeling over-tyred," grumbled the sixWheeler, "and who wouldn't with three pairs of twins? "
That Mr. Danford Thomis, as Master of the Coaehmakers' Company, was in great form at last -week's dinner in the Carpenters' Hall. Much paper-rattling.
That it's wiser to pay as you ride.
That wreckers cannot be leaders. That somebody pays for every road.
Of disconcerting third-hand vehicles.
Of a coining-together in the seeking.
Of shipping tied without road motors.
OF new motor legislation in the drafting.
That 50, Pall Mall is filling up nnotorialiy.
That a new society is tested in its fourth year.
That it's the long view that gets the long run.
That a good body lifts the unattractive frame.
That the railways are both nettled and rattled.
Of bridge, frost, tra.ffic and various other nips. That it was all squared over the $ over the water. That a large carry-forward can soon be dropped. That only money plus brain make motor risks pay.
That good looks count nearly as much as good works.
That the brand-now may be better than the new brand.
Of some who did not know Heckleburnie's whereabouts.
Of propositions beyond London's Traffic Committee.
That the U.S.A. is keeping nearly all its own b enzoie.
That the all-out cost of the Butt " extraordinary traffic " case topped £20,000.
That further subscriptions are invited by the organizers of the fund for Percy Frost Smith's widow and family. — 0 That lIr. H. G. Burford will be in the chair to-morrow, when the Editor of this journal delivers his paper on recent developments in the commercial motor, industry before the Institution of Engineers, in-Charge.