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That the registration book may go.
Of high-pitched taxation machination.
That no bus looks well when unwashed.
" The greater the growth the greater the liability."
Less, although -Still too much, hair-brained chatter.
That not all the profits are squeezed out of rubber.
That punctuality is the essence of creditable transport.
That motorbuses have always cleaner insides than trams, That there's no creeping paralysis about large pneumatics.
Of impending unification of important motorbus businesses.
Hopes that England will not become the dole-shop of the world.
That where the ash leafed before the oak they're 'certainly in for a soak.
Of municipal eyes upon and eye-openers about calls for new motorbus routes.
Of a Ford that made the journey from Los Angeles to New York City in ai days.
That too broad roads are spreading abroad too much money ex the Road Fund.
That one paradox at Bristol is the fact that the city enjoys and does not suffer from the blues.
That more wisdom applied to more experience is' needed in road construction and improvement.
That recent flooding has done' road damage in Britain to the extent of several million pounds.
That the first job for the Advisory Committee on London Traffic will be to establish a new law of relativity.
That Sir Lynden Macagsey should make a facile and • popular successor to Sir Joseph Broodbank as Pres. Inst. T. in September next.
That the Fifth of November next in London has been fixed for the coming-of-age celebrations of the Commercial Motor Users' Association.
The advice, "Keep an ceil on the oil." Also
" Keep the home oils burning!'
That the archaic methods employed for roadpatching by means of manual labo.jir may soon be altered for the better in this country as they have already been in France.
Of owners of central-gangway motor coaches who have forgotten that they will one day next year have to make provision for "running boards or their equivalent" on both sides when legislation enforces this concession to public opinion as to the protection of pedestrians. That air will soon be the only thing free.
Of round-peg engines in square-hole vehicles.
That elastic steam too often has a heavily stiff frame.
Dorking people talking about wanting still less walking.
Of Hull's city council's being notified that bus vibrations are vexations.
That the life of the much-maligned taxi-cabby is not all beer and skittles.
Of still more money for roads before the present incidence of taxation is altered.
That the passenger traffic problem of New York is actually much smaller than that of London.
From Paris that stone paving lasts 22 years, wood paving ten years and asphalt surfacing 15 years.
That Peterborough Corporation must be congratulated on making sure of fair weather for 81 hours per day.
That automatically locking differential gears are not maintaining any considerable degree of popularity.
That the .E7 fee for parking coaches at the Derby did not leave much margin for profit on a short journey.
That the atmosphere in many railway carriages suggests that they are museums preserving the original air round which theywere built.
That the capsizing of a Reading motor bus on WhitMonday was due to the collapse of a ditch margin, and not to any constructional defect.
Many personal applications to the member of the staff who wrote "Backing the Fleet by Sound Organization " for a sectional drawing of the wheel which turns round its hub.
That your benzole will cost you more, as soon as the French Senate passes the Bill now before it to make compulsory the use of a percentage of power alcohol in all motor fuels throughout France.