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Of no Show de Cologne this autumn. .•Advice to hauliers: "Don't quote by rote."
Plans for preserving bridges that bridge the ages.
Of King Coal causing coal kinks in many Industries.
That the new pull-up for carmen is the petrol pump.
That the junk in the yard may be worth a chink in the till.
• That foolish drivers cut in where the wise ones fear to tread. 0 That most tramway takings are suffering from that sinking feeling.
That that which is old-fashioned: is by no means always inefficient, — Wheel, wheel, wheel, wheel, wheel, wheel. Perhaps, of even more than that.
Of hire-purchase terms of one-fifth deposit and balance spread over 100 weeks.
Somebody asking if Guy Motors, Ltd., haven't almost enough feathers to stuff a cushion.
That it is judicious rather than big advertising that makes big business for the small man.
Of a prophecy that. the motor will play a very important part in the future of the pig trade.
That many tramway companies have to Choose between scraping along and scrapping the let.
How a motorvan at Walham Green, in dedging some children, did a turn that brought • the house down.
That only in eXceptional cases and in order to save an empty return journey can pigs be Carried six miles at (id. a head, .
That a motor vehicle was, within living memory, ordered off the streets of New York. Now motor vehicles push pedestrians off.
Petrol lamp owners suggesting that they should be allowed exemption up to a reasonable consumption if there is a petrol-tax resumption.
From a patient in a London hospital that the conStant hum of motor traffic is not half so sleep-destroying as the clip-clop of horses' feet.
That in rural parts there is coming into being a successful class of small coadibuilder .specializing in the construction of lorry bodies for farm purposes and country bus coachwork.
That the Chancellor of the Exchequer has recklessly selected " 13 " as the number of the clause in his Finance Bill which imposes the increased taxes on hackney and commercial vehicles.
Of the Berliet That carries hay, Calves, deer, pigs, sheep or hounds, Or furniture,. . Or bricks—for sure, In uses it abounds. That a bus is not a public body. The pneu slogan: "On air bound."
That it is mileage cost that matters.
That pneumatics take the bang out of chars-k-hanes. That tyres were the Achilles' heel of bygone bus days.'
That the L.G.O.C. is becoming keen on six-cylinder engines.
That parking vehicles in London is getting a risky business. 0 That a rejected tender sometimes causes feelings to Lie likewise. 0 That the man who asks 160 for a 1911 taxicab is some optimist.
That there is nothing like sunshine for bringing out the passengers. 0 That "Heavy Loads on Rough Roads" is proving an excellent "slogan."
Of those who would give much to find an effective brake for the wheels of time.
That Salford's six-wheeled buses will be chiefly used for long-distance first-class passenger service.
That it does not pay to stand in the path of a "heavy " when the driver's foot is kept down.
That many users consider an ounce of performance is worth more than a pound 'of salesman's talk.
That the chief factors in the recent development of rural England have been the bungalow and the bus.
That in the present Parliamentary session six local authorities are seeking powers to run motorbus services.
That 25 local authoritie% possessing such powers do not apply them.
That the attendance at the 13-irmingham conference of cleansing superintendents will bd better than might have been feared. 0 That drivers of lorries loaded with produce for Covent Garden Market wear pained expressions when in the 3 m.p.h. limit on Waterloo Bridge.
That the Vapour Oil people are still nearer what is wantea than when The Commercial Motor gave the first description of their fuel-economy system last year.
Someone saying that the motorbus does nothing to mar the beauty of the country through which it travels, whilst the railway, with its lines, signal-boxes and posts, is a permanent eyesore and disfigurement to many a pleasant landscape.