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That not every witness has wit.
That not every tyre grips every road.
Of efforts to make lean results look fat.
That there's a lot of dissimulation going on.
That telephones should cost less and do more.
Of no easy income for owners of trade motors. That the railways. may now do their darn'dest.
That they're waking up on more Woking roads.
That what matters in road work must be minded.
That London's traffic tangle may prove intractable.
Of lower hire-purchase charges but higher turnovers.
That forcing the pace is not only done on the highway.
That not every agreement is honourable or honoured.
That nobody would be surprised to hear anything just at present.
That Folkestone has been the Waterloo of many unversed motorbus probationers.
That if motorbus enterprise had possessed but one neck it must have expired in 1910.
Congratulations to Mr. Shrapnell-Smith upon the good recovery of his elder boy after a recent accident.
' That vibration under heavy motor traffic suffers an easy death when the foundation is truly laid and the surface smooth That if some roads have surfaces that bend under some motorbuses many more motorbuses are broken upon many more roads that have no surfaces worth mentioning.
That. it's too often forgotten that much of our prosperity comes to us because we are the posterity of others who often built businesses and roads better than they knew.
That there was a little less of a hurly-burly in a few purely motor-coaching areas last season, due in part to further eliminations, in part to more experience, and in part to reduced expenses.
• That if a stroke-bore ratio of 1.6 ever came to be accepted as the basis corresponding to 11 per h.p. for motorcars, the annual tax in pounds for any four-cylinder engine would boil down to the numerical product of stroke by bore (in inches).
Tot in the words of the poet— Our tramway systems cease to pay, They have their day and cease to be. Fewer heavy-motor-trade sighs.
Of fogs being a few weeks early this year.
That the bus back-door controversy isn't closed.
Of bewilderment concerning h.p. rating betterment.
Of punctuality returning on the Southern Railway.
That there's to be a New Year new registration book.
Of a burs company that can do well of its own B.A.T.
That the cost of living seems to be going up by leaps and pounds.
Of new, pitted road surfaces that are a pneu pitfall for the unwary.
The " Sketch " on the milky way bill for a new rate of gallons per mile.
That the Yellow Cab's " brownies ", have nothing to do with the Girl Guides.
That the car in the Redline advertisement seems to be "going hill-climbing" backwards.
That the French railways are in more senses than one more southern than our Southern.
That people were much impressed by the " entirely at your service " attitude of the salesman in the Berliet ad.
That a much-used road may reasonably be reckoned a necessary road ; therefore necessity should be the mother of its improvement.
That three hundred members and guests are expected to be present at the C.M.U.A. coming-ofage banquet at the Savoy Hotel, on the 5th prox.
That the so-called and much abused "big proprietor" is steadily winning back the esteem and respect of the travelling public who use motorbuses.
That flying for all," even at the alluring cost of K per mile, will never really catch on until local authorities can see their way to provide recognized landing-grounds in, or adjacent to, every town.
That some bankers' loans and overdrafts, now reduced by such summer surplus revenue as there was, are proving harder to re-swell in order to pay for deferred annual or other motorbus and motor-coach overhauls than was the case a year ago.