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Steer in safety by having safe steering.
"If they become much lighter, the weighbridges won't register."
"What we want now is lighter passengers and lighter fuel."
"My bus had Stirling Moss on the back panel and one of his teachers at the wheel! "
That " dropping the pilot" is often replaced in road transport by "dropping by Pilot."
Of an Australian suggesting that all heavy vehicles should carry their own wheel chocks.
That the main reason for this is that so many " chock-rocks " are left on the road.
Of much interest in the use of single instead of twin tyres of the same size on an underfloor-engined Midland " Red " bus.
That a 64-year-old clippie of the same company considers bus conducting to be the best job: That those concerns which have had their noses to the grindstone in the past few months may not have had the chance to keep their ears to the ground. "Let's nationalize everything and have nothing to live on!"
That courtesy is the cheapest lubricant for the wheels of daily life.
That Glasgow's proposed 6d. football fare might definitely be classed as fan.
That having overtaken sound, man will presumably endeavour to do the same with light.
" As there is a bang when sound is beaten, what will there be when light is overtaken?"
That one need not be an old (or young) fool to think there's no fuel like an oil fuel.
That "under 6 tons" for the M.C.W.-bodied Leyland Tiger Cub really meant 5 tons 7 cwt.
That if they ran at suitable times and could be assured of a large enough clientele to make them a paying proposition, express buses would be welcomed by more dwellers in outer suburbs.