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Of hard currency being well adMinistered.
Of Wall's "hot dog" drivers sporting cool, straw boaters.
Of some twin tyres set so wide apart that they could pick up a golf ball, Re Government expenditure, that it is a case of either " Whoa! Whoa! " or "Woe! Woe! " That fleet colours should not be fleeting colours. Of transparent ticket holders on a Wallasey bus.
That when bees swarm on a bus, passengers swarm off.
The latest definition—a Government Department is a place that makes petrol depart.
A heat-wave warning: "Do not loiter on a tarred • road for everything gums to him who waits."
That in a modern coaxial cable 660 simultaneous conversations are possible on only two copper wires.
That night parking without lights on roads, except at specially authorized places, is resulting in police activity.
That the scrap metal shortage would be reduced if all the bits and pieces shed by road vehicles -were collected.
That a Continental concern is building a 120-seater coach equipped With kitchen, central heating, lavatory and radio.
That a Rhondda Transport bus was recently driven from a mountain road to a fire station when the top caught fire.
-That rolling stones gather no moss, but judging by the old crocks dug out to cope with holiday rail traffic, rolling stock can gather quite a lot.
That one should not use blue, red or black adhesive cellulose tape on unregistered postal packets, as this may conflict with Post Office identification colours.
That a Leyland on high speed newspaper delivery from Dublin was to be the subject of a broadcast from a following car, but the commentator could not catch the commercial vehicle.