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That some grease guns misfire. The harder the work the fitter." That "Accessibility is not desirable." That this was not said by a driver.
Of possible fare warfares, once again.
Of the Tariff eye on the ,first-year owner.
Of Horatios out to smash the S.S. ratios. Of neck-ricking reserves of brake capacity. That taxes still remain " standing " charges.
That it's not impossible to make Wembley go.
Of hilly routes as the electric's worst resistance.
That sensible accelerator pedals are not many.
That the Fordson says "A-shunting we will go." Of "Stand, and deliver• " as the straphanger's fate.
That now We go up, up, up—with the thermometer.
Of greater popularity of cheaper quarterly licences.
That "operating costs" don't include surgical expenses.'
That summer begins in ▪ May and goes on until it is hopeless.
That " cutting-in " should usually be followed by " running in."
That not every branch of highway robbery has yet been exploited.
That prosperity prosperity oft pursues pretty paint and powerful publicity. • • Of deferred publication of some more of the Churchill dance-tunes.
Of coals afire as bad on roads without any heaping on their crowns.
That tramcars are not always "cram-cars," according to financial reports.
That size 6 boOts may be popular in a drawing office, but not in the driving cab, From some who consider motorbuses can survive any kind of unkind treatment.
Of radiators with blind's or shutters ; soon there'll be casement curtains anti flower-boxes.
That General S. S. Long, C.I3., who underwent a major 'operation in February, is fit and well again, -and very much all there, following a trip to and from the West Indies.
That Mr. • Shrapnell-Smith is to open the discussion on Thursday next, in London, at the Institute of Transport Congress, on the paper dealing with Road. andRail Co-ordination. That standing pays both ways.
'Of mixed pickles made during Pick's holiday abroad.
That the S.O.S.-type mot8rbuses never send out the signal.
Of a new and influential move to check inconsiderate driving on the roads.
That bad conduct on the part of a passenger is the good conductor's opportunity.
That no new scale of taxes for motorbuses will in practice increase the number of small vehicles.
That the London Traffic Committee finds it started nearly 18 months too late to get home That Mr. Edwin' Eir Judd (erstwhile of Sentinels and located at Shrewsbury) has now settled down in London.
That the cutters of route number stencils for L.G.O.C. buses have adopted an unnsual form for the figure 8.
That the nature of the R.H.S. tests for motor lawn mowers in to-morrow's competition is still being kept dark.
The assurance that the events will include no jumping. --0— That it's not always wise to ask a county borough for more licences to ply for hire than are, in fact, necessary.
That That in motor driving nowadays most novices not only need all their own nine lives, but nearly take as many others.
--0 That the C.111.U.A. hopes• to be successful, in finding a dazzle-reducer -that adds not more than half,a-crown a time to the cost of a lamp.
That it will be harder for the bigger buses to bear any larger tax burden on them, unless they are allowed a larger standing one in them.
That more people may be dazzled when they see the contents of the report of the Departmental .. Committee on the Regulation of Public Service Vehicles.
That neither squirming nor struggling will win over Winston on :motor taxation, anti that he's got his winning eye on a round twenty millions from it for 1926-27.•• — That the net profit made, by the railways in hauling 1.2 million odd tons a-year of roadstone is nearly enough to pay the whole of their highway rates to all the local authorities in Great Britain.