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That common fires are too much so.
Of much more benzole coming from Germany.
Of many happy returns of ideal motor-coaching days.
camouflaging about the inside of the new Mersey tunnel.
That tar's star will rise again as part of a more milky-looking highway.
That the "flapper bracket" is evidently regarded as a necessary evil.
That Fageol safety coaches from America are to be adapted to British needs.
Of too many tight corners and passing-places as yet untouched by the Road Fund.
Of miles and miles of oil drips swelling the profits of lubricating-oil providers.
That many Scottish roads are much too ruttish, and especially so towards the north-west.
That a pair of " bags " will be included in the equipment of all Morris-Oxford cars in the future.
Of eyesight tests and blinker drill possibly being included in the curriculum of modern motoring schools.
That, in order to ensure absolute driving fitness, free dental treatment will be possible for all motor vehicle drivers on obtaining driving licences.
That comparatively few owners of big limousines and landaulets realize that their legal maximum speed is 12 m.p.h.
That the latest phases of power-alcohol research may be–touched upon at the C.M.TJ.A. Olympia Show Conference on November 5th next.
That it has proved to be too late for the railways either to buy out or drive out those who own the various types of commercial motor.
That new constructional and running requirements may be enforced by Order before there's time for any new law, but that nothing's been settled about it yet. That petrol is the farmer's friend.
How Capt. Routh snakes dead fowls fly to London.
That " Fordsons on the fairway" are the joy of many golf club secretaries.
That we might safely abolish.the speed limit if we could but abolish the road hog.
A traveller's complaint -that the motto of some Italian bus drivers seemsto be "Safety Last," That, in the planning of a city, a convenient motor park is now as essential as a public park.
Farmers averring that the signs of a prosperous era for agriculture are in the eye of the beholder— or smallholder.
Of those who hold that "Commercial Motor No. I," in 1905, was every whit as epoch-making as "Locomotion No. I" in 1825.
That it would be interesting to know how many copies of that issue are extant.
That the increase in number,. as well as ingenuity, of publicity vehicles shows that, traders are now fully alive to their value.
That fire-engines and ice-cream, carriers should help to find out whether popular fancy is hot or cold towards commercial sidecars.
Of a young man's gloomy prognostication—" It they aren't jolly careful they'll go safening up the traffic until there's no fun in driving."
That according to Major Stenson Cooke, the problem of road-manners can be solved only by the minding of five p's—precept, practice, persuasion, propaganda and patience.
That it would be difficult to suggest a corresponding number of q's, but two might be quietness and quod avoidance.