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Of blind bends and blind humps.
Of no glad eye yet from the railways.
That tipping lorries like being tipped.
'That the 24th will usher in the great licensing push.
That the committee stage of the Railway Bills may either be hustled sooner or begin only on April 26th.
That when Sir William remarked, "The taxicab trade is always with me," he might have said the taxicab tirade.
Someone wanting to know how Mr. Grenfell makes out that road-transport .companies use the highways "free of charge."
That, if they do, we must surmise that the Road Fund " growed," like Topsy.
And that hauliers and carriers are exempt from local rates.
That the recent C.M.I.T.A. memorandum on the iniquities and insincerities of the Railway Bills continues to be appreciated and used where its contents will count for much.
That just as the C./VI.U.A. costs in re Weston-superMare v. Butt reached £.16,000, so may the Railway Bills Defence Fund of the Association, which is now open, have to be made as large.
That one per cent. of treated ethyl ether in the fuel will be ignition's future "lines of communication" within the cylinder to effect within the time available the complete combustion of inferior petrols with heavy ends.
That co-ordination does mean fewer orders.
That cash, knowledge and oil all give power.
That thve's many a cert. dropped for a shadow.
That it's, really footling 10 foot it when bus fares , are so downtrodden. That all-cement roads are gaininggroued.
That each best plug equals a-Deng squad..
Of more-than-a-penny-a-mile as a coign of vantage.
With pleasure betimes of returning tight leaves and buds this early spring.
That steamers are undaunted by unusual and unusually heavy loads.
That it is strange how often when one vehicle stops in a narrow street. another draws up immediately opposite.
That the private car is the chief offender and that the practice should be forbidden.
That the provinces may be asked—or even forced— to copy London as regards transport restrictions, but that it won't work.
Of many users who feel that the motor manufacturers are about to desert their old customers and yield to railway temptations.
Can it be called 'open competition' when one party is dependent on its own efficiency and the other has almost unlimited backing?"
Someone asking if double-deckers are forbidden in the Free State because Irishmen object to seeing double without the customary preliminaries. • That a taxicab crashed into the window of a gramophone dealer at Buxton,' that several records were broken, but that of "Put Me in a Taxi went unscathed.
Of weals on too many industries.
Of strenuosity for and against the Bills.
Of all the cooks preparing the railway stew.
And observes that the ".C.M." index keeps growing.
That the noise of the old brigade has gone by retyring.