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That the :K-type is now O.K.
Of Sir Joynson and Sir Julian A great many generalities this week.
That Mr. Shave was else happy man in London last week.
That, after all,. Paris has got its Ford taxicabs before London.
That the popular description in motoring articles will be Sir joynsort.
That lamp-post clearance has lessened with thil coming of the new bus.
That -Scotland Yard moved with uncanny speed in accepting the K-type bus.
That the canary-coloured cabs have not flown to the relief of London's traffic.
That on the K-type bus the engine is inclined to assist the worm, but the worm is feeling depressed.
That the Home Secretary has become a real force in matters concerning London's passenger transport, ThatScotland Yard suggested the roof stanchions in the new buses, and that the roof, in consequence, can be lightened and lowered 4 ins.
That the daily Press nearly shrieked with joy over the luxuriousness" of the new bus, but that the C.M.': staff was not one whit excited.
That perhaps the "CM." Staff knew enough to recognize the real merits of the design.
Nowadays, very rarely indeed amongst L.G.O. officials, the expression "packed up."
The phrase among the bus passengers, however, very frequ.ently.
That the ban on a descriPtion of the Paterson carburetter is at last lifted.
That there is a noteworthy absence of Leylands from the Government Disposal Sales lists.
That perhaps it is just as well that both the A.A. and the R. A. C. got an official knighthood in the same list That now the Government has started selling off magnetos, it will be some sale if that colossal stock at Short's Gardens is to be disposed of, That it is to be hoped that there will be as much keenness about buying those tractors as there appears to be about testing them. That Coventry is not a bit pleased about the A.E.O. bus contract.
That it -really does mica ldt of difference to plug manufacture.
That that Was a pretty wonderful Ferodo stunt on the burning Tank.
That there_is no real reason why gas should not be used–Aaut will it?
That Bibendum does not seem to have lost any flesh now he is demobbed.
That not every chain drive is "mere powerful" than any other form of drive.
That it is to be hoped that the New Zealand authorities have taken steps to get other advice.
That if you write to the Board of Trade on a matter, say, of imports,. you get an acknowledgment from the Minister of Health.
That there is really no room for legal restriction of unladen weights ; they only serve to complicate the whole problem of weight restrictions.
That, of course, there may be a lot of R.A.C. Guides on the roads, but that you seem to see very little of them once you are well away. from London and the South.
01 yet another of those optimistic concerns, which, never having built a solitary chassis, announce their preliminary programme of -a quarter of a million in the first year, and that it is almost time they learned something of the elements of mass-production troubles.
That while we are all urging quantity there is still a lot to be said for,British quality.
That Rapson rapidly came to the conclusion that he could not make those self-cleaning plugs to sell at a profit.
That ip is a little difficult for an " expert" to explain why he mistook a worm drive for a "bevel and pinion."
That in its references to the semi-rigid gas container, the Committee has half consciously adopted airship terminology.
That that hotel-office habit is not the last of our waracquired habits to be retained —Vickers having taken over the St. Ernain's Hotel for their new electrical interests, so it is reported.
That it would clear the air if all those "demob." applicants for jobs in the motor trade would make it quite clear as to what it is they believe they can actually do that is worth the money they want.