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Of pot-holes that would accommodate a goodsize wash-basin.
That steamships were never suppressed for the sake of the sailing vessels.
That there could hardly be keener competition thah that over brake linings.
That the railways seem to claim extra consideration on the "first-come-first-serve" basis.
"But do they serve?"
That each meeting of the Railway Bills Joint Select Committee suggests both a golden and a paper age.
That if "the day of the owner-driver" (in the road-transport world) is over the fact has not yet dawned upon him.
That it's a bad choice of words by the chairman of a motorbus company to say that they " roughly " earned any sum whatsoever.
People wondering if •the proposed instalment system of paying railway holiday fares will become as popular as the goose club.
From many who feel that the Railway Bills might be quite properly described as measures to reduce or withdraw road-transport services, Of several colliery undertakings saved from absolute closing clown by the 4d. a gallon assistance to benzole produced from native raw material.
• The C.M.U.A. is work ing for no fall.
Of good lubrication power preservation.
That the new tax may give a fillip to superchargers. Whimpers from owners of petrol-vapour lamps.
That the long-distance bus service is passenger transport's long suit.
That in .India one lorry is computed to do the work of 20 bullock carts.
Anent the above that, as regards road wear, a lorry has four or six wheels and 40 bullocks have 160 hoofs ! .
That the railways want VS eat their cake and have t'other chap's, too.
That there is a marked slump in Britain of hirepurchase sales of road motors generally.
That almost any business firm would like to be granted the right to suppress competition.
A question re the ticket-clip—" What happens to the ticket when there is a change of passenger in the seat?"
The suggestion that someone might invent a bus ticket that would disintegrate immediately when it came into contact with the pavement.
Also that they might not.
The question "Why not a gelatine ticket (with delectable flavour) that might be swallowed by the passenger on leaving the bus?"
A reminder to those who complain that rural routes are "under bussed" that bus proprietors are not primarily philanthropists.
"is Charing Cross to cross the river?"
And feels yet more of " Buchan's winter."
"What Churchill gets away with is seldom returned."