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Of the Bean to be.
Much about Berne recent fizzles.
That modesty is seldom the worst policy.
That the value of the C .31 . Cup is WO guineas.
That oitee is no custom to a motorbus traffic man.
Of more loads for the willing Department of Roads.
Of efforts to make Mr. Baldwin re-try petrol taxation.
That some dividing lines take much more than finding.
That the S.M.M. and T. may be too fly for the new h.p. web.
Of C.M.U.A. coming-of-age new members still coming in.
" All is not glass that glitters ''—as the driver said when he splintered a pooh From " The Sketch," that you muit look at it all round or be done all round.
That they are still looking for the conductor who carries a punch in each hand.
That municipalities allow little, rope to those who are cast for a tug-of-war with them.
That errors other than wilful ones frequently merit leniency but do not always produce it.
That not too many at a time of medicinal camphor balls are good for colds and cold drivers.
. Of people who are dog-pleased, of others who are dog-tired, and of others again who are merely dogged.
Almost all and sometimes more than truth can sum.
That orange-tinted glass in goggles does not damp out all glare effects, but is much better than nothing.
That an axle cap found on the road with one'boit and nut out of a possible three is rather a give-away for the driver.
Of alleged returning affection for commercial horses for idling jobs, but doubts as to what the all-in costs really are.
That it will he harder to steer a course through a certain committee than through the traffic which it is being set up to control.
Of many a man who secured his engineer's ticket a few years ago, but really was a washer, now seeking to revert to any unskilled status with sheltered pay.
That those members of the travelling public in provincial cities who are forced by lack of choice to be tram users only are becoming increasingly dissatisfied about it.
That Shell and other leading petrol importers now believe there would be another cool million pounds a year for them out of customers if fuel were again taxed instead of the vehicle.
Dry-land on wet asphalt.
That Chief Bassom is to be chief besom.
-Uneasy lies the road with too much crown.
That it's a short lane that has no pot-holes.
That a misty morn may not uncoach the day. Of much travelling that smacks of the treadmi That beats May soon be needed on more routes.
That low speed is best at a Ugh-hedged corner. That over-wide roads tend to become an obsession.
That too many leaders cause disorder and disunion. 0 That round and not through is the through-traffic view.
That noise stiff announces a few modern .motorbuses.
That " the man who started it" often asks too much.
That the good old times are a good old time in returning.
That nothing surprises a motorbus conductor, driver
or proprietor. ., • Someone asking what size body Bombay's 1.-ton hearse chassis is to carry.
Someone remarking that Guy's ought soon to be able to stuff a pillow with their feathers.
That, according to Mr. Basil Mott, traffic will shortly have to get out Or get under—ground.
That the provision of luncheon and tea baskets is to be added next year to the activities of some more motor coach proprietors.
That white omnibuses and motor coaches are now more likely to come in with enamel-type dope in place of paint and varnish on them.
That the driver who steered his runaway bus into a side street when the driving shaft snapped on a crowded hill was Gander by name, but no goose by nature.
That, if weather prophets are to be believed, the coach de luxe for " Summer " tours in 1925 must be fitted with electric heaters and have foot-warmers for every passenger.
That the Board of Customs and Excise are still of the opinion that, under current and imminent conditions of fuel supply and use, the Road Fund might lose anything up to £5,000,000 a year of revenue if petrol taxation were again essayed.