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Of the dust up.
Of easy starting.
01 90 in the shade. Of timing and tune. Of welcome week-ends.• " Not hat? What rot! " Of the plague of b-oi:ing..
" Tinkle, tinkle, grit and tar " That the horse is in the cart..
" Drinks!—phew and far between."
That coppers make good conductors.
Of the Ford across the Herring Pond.
Of standing charges and running costs.
That the heat •came On by degrees suddenly.
• That the answer is in the negative if the battery " earth ".is bad: From the shade of Bovser:,"I can draw spirit from the vasty deep! "
That, -soon, one will not be able to see the garages for the metal -advertising signs hung all over them.
That the kerbside pump will shortly be the only reliable indication that the poppy-show behind it is a garage and not a gaudy kinema.
That the Yellow cab, when it comes on London streets in a few months' time, will strike quite a new note.
• That a new type of cab driver may be developed, just as a new type of bus conductor was developed When the ticket system was introduced many years • ago:, That many of Us can remember the, time when a bus conductor had to return I:2 10s. per day, but that there was generally a balance to share with the driver, That the latest kerbside pump can be wheeled • from the garage to the waiting vehicle and back again.
That Folkestone Corporation having removed the fixed kerbside pumps may be reconciled to the idea of a concealable pump of this kind.
That it was with a shock we recently picked up a pamphlet entitled "The Case, Against the Fiat," issued by the Bribery and Secret Commissions Prevention League, but only to find that it referred • to the Law Officers' flat which mast be obtained before certain prosecutions can be undertaken.
Driver Jaques Is still very weak : • (Put oil on his brakes . To take out the squeak !) Of our. American eussings. Of brake) rods that break.
That wrought-iron rods are the least troublesome: • 0 Of deflated, tyres outl of bounds. —0 Of engines affected by the heat-wave.
That the dryness of the atmosphere was .a .contribnting cause of lost power.
How the •petrol went to• blazes at Burgess Hill.
That Americans will, still • visit England " though a' the .seas-gang dry." , That,. considering the heat, very few. steaming • 'radiators have been observed Of a fire• brigade demonstration this week at Bexhill-'-an eminently sensible heat-wave idea.
That "London Central Orli-lib-11e Co." strikes us as being' rather .close----and in this hot weather, too.
. Everyone sympathizing with Messrs. Chapman on the loss of .1-0 buses in the Bognor fire.
Someone saying -that R.T.N. muit have been brought up on Dr. Brewer's History. — That. his -recent article might have been called The wire and theWhy..ar,>, or "The Why and Wherefore," or even "The Wire and Where For ? "
That a tram. always seems to choose the worst possible .position and the busiest hour of the day when it breaks down.' .
That one of these cumbrous vehicles chose an important London cresSinglast week, and held up two streams of traffic for fifteen minutes.
That the Dunlop. Rubber Co., Ltd., are celebrating, on the 23rd instant, the 35th anniversary of the granting -of the first patent for the pneumatic tyre.
That R. W. Thomson, who was before his time with his own pneuttatic tyre in 1_845, Will not be forgotten on the occasion.