One Hears
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Appreciations of our new "Silver Mask" caricatures.
That Sir Cyril has put a cat amongst the ancillary pigeons.
That by co-operation they could develop into eagles better able to hold their own.
Of too many sidings and loop-lines in the place where the railways' conscience ought to grow.
That the railways were content with things as they had been, but road transport opened the door of progress.
That the railways, having followed through that door, now wish to trample their leader under foot.
That many goods lose their goodness alter railway handling.
Of uneven battles between the uniformed and the uninformed.
That platinum points for sparking plugs show up well under extensive and exacting tekts... That not all brake friction materials prove really effective when " lubricated " by water.
. That some hardly bite at all in such circumstances.
That even if level crossings be slow in disappearing, it is a comfort to know that no new ones will be constructed.
Queries as to why the efficient life of the average commercial vehicle should be so much longer than that of the private car.
Suggestions that one is made to wear and the other to wear out. _ That an operator owning many vehicles is usually placed at a grave and unfair disadvantage when reference is made to his "crime sheet."
That The Commercial Motor "smalls " are unrivalled.
That the Carter Paterson concern still operates a Leyland that started work in 1908.
. That this machine has covered 443.000 miles to date and is still going strong and . holding its own.