ONE HEARS
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Don't overtax your lorry's strength."
That a strained chassis can never really regain its " health."
"Can nothing be done to reduce the rattling of milk-churns during road transit in cities?"
That it's as, hard to run a big bus company as any other successfully.
Of too many hit-and-miss drivers in the medley motley of new private-car owners.
That an appointment to meet "on the pier Wigan is a standing joke in Lancashire.
An artist rhapsodizing over the wonderful distant views front the Croydon by-pass road.
That a gasometer may be a thing of beauty to those who have no sense of smell.
Of' very few going from England to this year's so-called World Motor Transport Congress at Rome.
That Belgian and French loco. firing is worse rather than better, as compared with pre-war dirtiness.
"Why don't the railways put , on a few nonsinoking compartments and leave the rest mire, stricted?"
That at present one constantly sees men crowded out of smokers by women passengers and, therefore, unable to_ smoke.
Of police eyes in cat's eyes.
Of absolutely nothing to beat the motor coach.
That the new line need not always be cut fine. Of Brazil, where the nuts .(and various other spare parts) go to. 0 That the "quick and lively" must not.be confused with the "jumping" bean.
That the one may be, the other always is, a grub carrier.
That Germany has scrapped her last horse tramway.
Somebody recalling the fact that, on the old horse trams in Lytham, the driver gave Warning of approach by ringing a hand-bell which stood on the steps to the top deck.
That Dublin regrets Jimmy Percy's change of That a brake isn't much good if its bark is worse than its bite. 0 That "too busy for words" seldom signifies "too busy to accept orders."
Someone asking if the drivers of Robeys refer to their vehicles as "George."
That the beading to any column in railway, accountancy is admitted to be no real guide to what reaches the column by way of contents.
That the Southern Railway's first-class fares for its Continental cross-channel services are based on a mile compared with the usual 2id. elsewhere, this being an example of what no competition can effect.
That depressions never come singly. '
Of few trades where there's no crush.
That love of motorcoaching never gets less.