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Of a little road uneasiness in the Isle of Man.
That not to muff a ndiator may be a miss. That foot pumps save Some hands handsomely..
That too many owners. hope for a snowless winter.
That it does not always pay to try to play a .lone hand.
That hot bricks have been in demand again for starting up.
Of Australians who regard England as the land of perpetual gloom.
That there cannot be no speed law for the rich yet a real one for the poor.
That new !Stiles are about to be erected for mechanical road transport to climb.
That the best leader on the road during is often another fellow's tail lamp. a fog That one German air concern is building a number of ,aeroplanes intended solely for goods transport.
A complaint that very often the barometer doesn't seem to have.been listening-in to the weather forecast.
That it's indiscreet, if not illegal, to fit bumpers which extend beyond a• motor vehicle's normal overall gauge.
That we want to hear more of a broad belt of -high pressure stationary over the whole of the British Isles.
. Still an occasional complaint of van drivers who refuse to recognize that a cyclist has any status as a road user.
That if 20 m.p.h. is to be strictly enforced for longer-distance motor coaches weighing not much more than Rolls-Royces, there will be a class war about it before long.
That sister systems do not always assist.
Of starters to he more ampere-houred.
That soon we may hear of skY motor lcirries. • That Catseye spectacles remains glassless, The more the movement the merrier the Xmas. That on the road there's money in a thorny croft.
'That tramways net as tourniquets on traffic arteries.
That women are being trained as motorbus ;conductors in Tokyo, Japan.
That, when England comes in for "a ridge of high pressure," it seldom remains rigid.
Of 'railway sleepers being in great demand for repairing field paths in clay-soil ecunties.
Of a dangerous. roadminnction in asmall Sussex town where scarcely a week goes by without an accident.
That three cf its four corners are inoperably blinded. • That a small town cannot spare a policeman for constant duty at one point.
That Dennis Bros. have lately received a cable order for fifteen motor fire-engines for shipment to one of the Dominions.
Of snow creeping southward and that, after experiencing the real thing last year, there are few who sigh for an old-fashioned Christmas.
That " public-service vehicles must of necessity adhere to a 'defined and regular route," yet, when trams stick and seem regularly rooted no one commends them.
Complaints that that it isn't only winged owls that hoot o' nights and that steps should be taken for the suppression • of the motorist who is over noisy after others are in bed.
Of a telephone-cable drum that ran away down hill in a narrow sunk road in Sussex and that a driver was just beginning to say his prayers when its pursuers captured it about a yard from his bonnet.
Of sixes for buses and straight-eights for cars.
That the giant tyre is now almost the jackkiller.