One Hears
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That coloured springs have no particular affinity with appleblossom time.
That high taxation is not the only deterrent to the expansion of our export trade.
That it won't expand if we charge more than overseas buyers can afford to expend.
That some low-mileage vehicles might say, like Martin Luther, "where I rest I rust."
That spare-parts exports may change an old phrase to "Brazil—where the nuts go to."
Readers complimenting the artist of an Esso advertisement on his three-dimensional tiger.
That the railways would like "Train up a child in the way it should go to be interpreted as teaching it always to go (and send) by train.
Employ upper-cylinder upper-cylinder lubricant with " tight " engines using the new low-viscosity oils, which may more easily be squeezed away by the piston rings.
From many observers in London that women conductors are, on the average, far more polite than most men on this work—even to their own sex!
That, as a consequence, Londoners would like to see more conductorettes in service, and the men will have to look to their laurels.
That one conductor, on his platform, allowed a man to board at a traffic-signals stop and later upbraided him loudly and publicly. The criticism that "The Bus of Tomorrow" (The Commercial Motor, February 6), is "off the rails! "
The reply "So are some of our present modes of passenger transport! "
That in the matter of roads our Governments have been millions wise and billions foolish.
That the value of a good road network cannot be judged merely on its net cost.
That 50% of the spring failures on war-time vehicles operated in the desert occurred while they were driven unladen.
From a provincial newspaper, reporting tests with a standee-type single-decker, the phrase: "So popular was the bus that it was often eunning behind schedule!"