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New Bean instead of "old bean."
Of heat waves and heat waverings. '
Of Mr. User in lieu of Mr. Everyman.
That weight saved is often money in pocket. That the country's scope is the townsman's hope.
Of coaches de luxe at less than third-class railway fares..
That wood and metal panels make an ideal combination.
That it will be some time before we have 12-ton motorcycle tractor-trailers.
• That, like that of Itaterloo, the battle of Newcastleon-Tine Bill was a near thing.
That whilst air may be free it takes a deal of catching without a power-driven pump.
Of a profit-earning tipper. We have found that it is difficult to be one without the other.
That the front-wheel brakes on the Clayton steam wagon at the "Royal" were much admired.
Of smiles from Irish readers over an assumption, in a recent "One Hears," that " Sean " was pronounced "seen."
That, although the daily papers ring with "the toll of the roads," they haven't tolled the knell of road traffic.
Of no complaints from Sussex when its visiting depression went home to Iceland and the taps were turned off.
That passenger planes have not, as some might be tempted to believe, the monopoly of touring rights in Skye and Ayr.
With pleasure (but scarcely with surprise) that the lion which recently attacked a baby Austin somewhere in Rhodesia came not from Leyland.
That " S.T.R." seems to think the average owner's account of the behavibur of his van about as truthful as the average angler's estimate of the weight of his catch. • How a driver, on a night journey, wasted half an hour in the intricacies of a small Welsh town, because there was nobody and nothing to show him the way out of the maze.
How a woman van-driver in a small Sussex town has been causing other roatFusera considerable discomfort and anxiety, but, se far, has somehow escaped the attention of the police."
Thaemodernized electric tramcars may spin out the life of that forte of passenger transportation in some areas for some years for some reasons which some people do not care to see sumMarized...
Renewed demands for extra copies of the joint paper read in Birmingham in May by Messrs. Shrapnell-. Smith and Robinson on "Highway Co.sts per Gross Ton-Mile of Traffic," and that the general secretary, C.M.U.A., 50, Pall Mall, S.W.1, has a few left to give away. to bona-fide applicants who quote this reference. That Mr. Churchill has gained his way. Of winding roads polished by turning tyres. Of unchecked corrosion in many bridge girders. That legislation, like law, is often best avoided.
That oil is the only acceptable over-bearing friend.
That a good coach attracts more than the glad eye.
That the quicker the ignition the stronger the stroke.
That this is the busy jamming season—for traffic, too.
Of the incontrovertible virtues of the cimvertibie one-tonner.
Hopes that the remainder of the summer won't be up to sample. 0 That the next attack must be on the weak and restricted bridge.
That the weak bridge is the defective link in any highway chain.
That the key to success with a flexible coupling is a centering device.
Of the disappearance of the rabbit as a mascot for the country-going bus.
That cellulose solvents have Presented glue boilers with another problem.
Of great efforts to prevent the announcement of a further penny off petrol.
That a lot of to-day's petrol whilst low in price is high in the odour scale when used.
That irs hard in road. transport to draw the line between production and consumption.
That, if your taxi driver sticks to main thoroughfares, it is doubtful whether it wouldn't have been quicker by bus.
Of some impressive ploughing tests with the Peterboro' tractor using a Parker gas-producer as its fuel source, • • 0 • That there May also be motor-coach parties for the next total eclipse of the sun, but that if so they will be in North Siam in 1929.
That Mr. Churchill's basic plan for economy over the Ministry of Transport appears merely to be not to spend on roads and bridges large slices of the money raised for them.