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That it isn't snobbish to like well-connected trains.
That petrol railcars are gaining much ground in the -United States.
The prophecy that soon all passenger traffic will be carried by or on air.
That the ache wants taking off braking on many heavy industrial motor vehicles.
That the no-standing order on the buses is the outcome of long-standing objections.
"Keep the C.M.—it teaches you how to keep your vehicles so that they'll keep you."
That a " one-inan-tram " must refer to the train that so often runs with one passenger.
That the most certain thing about the future of commercial motoring is that it is assured.
That no tinted headlamp bulb of anti-dazzle value will be concerned with painting anything red.
That there may be something in the fact that " arterial " provides the 'wherewithal for "rail tear."
That only the unwise owner contends that rural roads should not have more conditional aid from the Road Fund, 0 That the Southern Railway is circularizing suburban householders with lists of cheap fares to London stations.
From several interested in dazzle mitigation who found the Savoy Hotel ballroom more agreeable than Richmond Park.
That In dazzle mitigation a device which on paper appears to be optically wrong may on the road prove to be practically right.
The rumour that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was seen with his hands in his pockets, but we fear that it is only a rumour.
That the Croydon Corporation is still undecided concerning the abolition of its Addiscombe trams and the adoption of trolley-buses.
That apparently good first and second years in any company's record may call for severe adjustment in its third and fourth balance sheets.
That every id. a pound on the price of rubber above Is. 6d. represents approximately 21 per cent, increase on ihe cost of solid tyres to a user.
That services across roulless areas will have a new meaning and scope where the I-Tolverta system of quadruple-link suspension for the wheels excludes all axles.
That the Government has become sufficiently impressed concerning a particular new basic method of retorting all kinds and blends of coal, and not merely coking coals, by means of low-temperature distillations, that important official pronouncements on the subject are imminent. The noise caused by the trams.
Of more roads to hold more motors.
That S.T.R. advocates a Plimsoll line for lorries.
That the only shock obtainable by drivers of electrics concerns their speeds uphill.
That too many users' vehicle records are without form and void.
That taxi-fares, chocolates and old brandy remain the three cheap things in Paris.
That there's a market for steam wagons in Belgium once the exchange improves.
That drivers on British roads may yet drive on their brakes as they do on the Continent.
That it's better to be only up against some things on the road than to be underneath them.
Of those who question that there can be a British victory on other than British articles.
That deliveries of petrol from Roumania are cutting into European sales from American sources.
Of large motorbuses able to pay for quite considerable periods on basic fares of id. per passenger-mile.
That there's sometimes money in leaving things as they are, as is now the case over motorbus taxation.
That twin pneumati& are sometimes mounted so close together as to rub shoulders when travelling under load.
That the Government may be too busy in 1926 to bother about either new motor laws or new motor taxes.
That the wise motorbus owner will get on with a further proportion of air-filled tyres without further delay. 0 Someone remarking that it is quite appropriate for the president of the C.M.U.A. to have a "tractor-trailer name."
That it's only the part-baked owner who employs motorbus conductors unprovided with a reliable ticket system. 0 That every change of gear temporarily upsets the mixture from the generator of more than one portable gas-producer system.
That railway action over passenger fares -is designed to entice motorbus owners to cut still lower, but that no railway system can provide the equivalent of a motorbus service.