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A tale of two Weathers.
That "By Beharrel " is now a Dunlopism.
That level-crossing law needs overhauling.
That dancing at Milan was a trifle piano.
But seldom the call of an unoiled axle or shaft.
Of autumn preparations to come on and to come off.
• 0 Of those who missed the mark now funking the franc.
That motor coaching's found to be more than rather nice.
Of more jam and pickles but less whisky going by road.
That the Sea is nearing the end of its motoring season.
Of numerous owners planning how to save 1027 xa lion.
That getting a move on is not Synonymous with starting up, .1 That Dunlops have recently done lots of further successful research.
That British tar remains a tower of strength for British road-makers.
That foreign coal has, as a rule, been ncither good nor popular but only very dear.
That there may yet be an Associated Steam Wagon Proprietors' Co-operative Coal Supply Co.
That members of the British delegation to Milan were simply slipped through the customs.
That Sir Henry, who did . not go, thought he never would be missed at Milan, but that he was, and badly.
That some 120 delegates to this year's International Road Congress decided to go largely in order to see Mussolini.
That it's about time the Institute of Transport arranged to give road transport a turn in the Presidential chair.
That the money for conversion has got to come from somewhere if coaches and omnibuses now on solid tyres. are to live through 1927.
Of more and more bus proprietors who intend to cut out seats after December 31st in order to coincide exactly with a definite taxation step.
That the reduction of seats in a motorbus is by no means a reductio ad absurdum.
That it's often worth removing two or more seats to save i12 a year on a public-service licence.
That for October-March half the seats in many a motorbus never might be missed if they were taken out.
That the vindictive character of; the increases of taxation upon motorbuses .recently engineered by railway interests is held by many proprietors to justify efforts to side-track them. That some low loaders are high steppers.
Of substantial W. and G. progress in South Wales.
That trains are too stuffy—buses are the right stuff.
That you may ride on a bus, but you can't write on a bus.
Of openings for really first-class demonstration drivers.
Of recent interworks visits in this country, as well as in America.
That a repair deferred oft catcheth unprepared him that hat!) erred.
Of room for improvements in power tyre pumps and commercial jacks.
Someone asking if "the C.M." advocates the breeding of six-legged horses.
Someone referring to Liverpool's tramway traffic as "the funeral procession."
Of 240 miles in the day as a not infrequent run for a long-distance bus these days.
Of a leading bus owned in Pembrokeshire advertising for a large boy as a conductor.
That road surfaces are more culpable than bus springs in the matter of vibration.
That Glasgow's drastic tram cuts appear to have retarded certain big bus activites.
That progress with the bus combine in Belfast has not been so rapid as some people anticipated.
That the Liverpool travelling public cherishes no delusions concerning the convenience of the city tramway services.
That a Yorkshire steam wagon and trailer have lately taken a 9-ton load up the dreaded Sutton Bank in Yorkshire.
That the gradient is reputed to be in parts 1 in 3.9.
That many road surfaces in the neighbourhood of Regent's Park have a permanent wave and feel as if they were shingled.
The remark re Henry Ford's book "To-day and To-morrow "—" I suppose that refers to the expectation of life for these American-built vehicles."
That following considerable increases by raw material contractors, manufacturers may be forced to anticipate possible surcharges to their customers until the strike is o7er.