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That the Dennis Rifle Club is "hot stuff" now. That it is more difficult to unlearn than to learn. That in road-making uniformity is often out of That he knows nothing who does not mix with the crowd.
That horses are capable of learning how to use their feet on any road.
That a roadman who is not born to the job takes a deal of making afterwards.
That no motoreab manufacturers exhibited at the Hackney Horse Show last week.
That the Servian War Office has paid the Opel works 313,000 marks for military lorries.
That some road-patching results in filling one hole and making another on each side of it.
That the latest song, " Can't you hear the Steamer," has many echoes on granite setts.
That though the Crystal Palace Park become primarily a London lung there will always be a museum building.
That at the Regent's Park Horse Parade it is the horse that wins the prize, but the whip which carries the rosette.
That two new mechanical-transport c..srmanies. of the Army Service Corps are to be quartered at Woolwich and Devonport.
That when a Bill goes easily throms„h the House of Commons it is often because the bulk of the members do not understand it.
That the L.C.O.C. made a record on a recent Sunday by carrying 1,664,000 passengers, and that that means I!, tons of pennies at least.
That two notices of motion are down in the House of Commons to rend the Middlesex County Council (Western Road) Bill " this day six months."
That a bus driver, finishing a, bad skid with his front wheels pointing to a barber's shop in Upper Street, Islington, exclaimed "That was a near shave."
n8 That various chain-drive claims are now boxed.
That excess of lubrication drowned many worms last week.
Tina the jet choked because the mixture was throttled.
That Edinburgh's two evening newspapers are now dispatched by motorvan.
That some steam-wagon owners are clamouring to pay a reasonable axle-weight tax.
Of demand for A special motor road from East Lancashire to the Isiverpool Docks.
That front-driven Latils are the only French vehieles subsidized with steel-tired wheels.
That it was very nearly a case of submarine instead of subterranean work at Holborn Hole last Friday.
That a new company at Yonghal has been borne by the energetic Mn. Commercar Thompson of Dublin.
That four-wheel-drive four-wheel-drive vehicles are not cheap to build, but that they take less out of the roads than other sorts do.
That Mr. BUEILS'S suggestions at the Highways Conference of November last are to be carried out by Mr. Herbert Samuel.
That London's savings on road maintenance due to motor traffic are, the latest nasty pill for the L.C.C. anti-motorbus partisans.
That those British makers who fail to keep an eye on the four-wheel drive will get another shock from the British War Office early next. year.
That there were 489 entries for the last splashguard trials in Paris, and that the Vincenot won the first prize, the Menu the second, and the Couvreux the third.
That a new batch of special inspectors has just been detailed to secure classified data with regard to bad driving of various separate classes of motor vehicles in London, That the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co. has followed L.C.O.C. methods by numbering its tram and bus routes, and that all the signs are illuminated at night-time.