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Of the slogan "You will certainly need Gilfords nONV," described as clever.
Of new bus routes converting pedestrians to using footpaths beside arterial roads.
That filling-station men in 1943 may inquire, "Petrol, oil, gas or hydrogen?"
Of the modern schoolboy inquiring the best coach route home at the end of term.
Somebody suggesting that we should now style ourselves The Commaircial Motor Prophecies of a day when there will be many using oil fuel and few entirely loyal to petrol.
That a Paris councillor has proposed that the officially recognised unemployed should be given free passes on the buses.
That if this were to be done the paying passengers would probably be crowded off.
That Summer Time cuts battery bills.
"That was a road— before ' economy.' " That America will want 5,000 vehicles for beer.
That weights must come down still farther.
That long company titles are ill-suited to short memories.
That a vehicle raises the mechanics' put as well as machine. That, although many overlook the fact, every motorist is also a pedestrian..
That it takes two rubber trees two years to supply enough latex to make one tyre.
That too many banners succumb to the temptation to load by bulk instead of by weight.
Of an air-minded youth who wanted to know the Armstrong-Saurer is a new type of glider.
Of a driver commenting on the proposed safety belt: "Why not go the 'ole 'og and put us into armour?"
That if Britain can work out a fair method of licensing and regulating the actual working of goods transport by road that result will have been achieved for the first time in the civilized world.
That the Highway Code paragraph, "Do not pull up alongside a constable on point duty to ask him a question . . ." might with advantage be brought to the notice of pedestrians, • especially those of feminine gender.
That organizing relay save agonizing.
Of the G.W.R. following the coach owners' That a salesman who kills prejudice is giving life to progress.
Still of jobless .men Who think haulage work is "money for jam."
That some learn only in Carey Street that this is a fallacy.
That commercial transport must not be hampered by .coercial legislar tiori.