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Hum from some tyres.
And that not very long ago chassis and body noises would have muffled it.
Much talk of " ways and means."
The query, " Was it short furlong? "
And that only the police can reply, That inspection is better than repair.
That most telephones can't help being slow.
That Government printers can be slow if they like.
That the full long bus is the best public servant.
That able and unable do not make a quiet stable.
That counsels as to taxation are more diverse than ever.
That rural roads deserve and are to get more help from the Road Fund.
That August is a bad month in many areas for goods trains to get about.
That they are scarcely seventeen yet in the really successful motorbus world.
That when oil is present there is often many a slip Itv6ixt brake shoe and drum.
There are groggy-looking motor coaches in South Wales as well as good-looking ones.
That the Hello each-wheel drive can out-manceuvre Loth a whippet tank and its latest progeny.
That you can tell the good engineer by the vehicles he keeps—and by the company that keeps him.
That the Departmental Committee on Hackney Motor Regulations is to be rediscovered in October.
That only the blind and the short-sighted grudge the provision of ample money for ample roads and bridges.
That it's not only the calculating of costs that would be easier if the passenger vehicle were always filled to capacity.
That the vital importance of The Commercial Motor's campaign to avoid road perils is being increasingly recognized.
That in the country a motor gully-emptier gets round and clears out the cesspools in ,a given area four times as often as the horses did.
That it is not the case that in certain disTricts in Wales it is proposed to use converted "Black Marias " for the conveyance of colliers. About, and about turn.
These holidays may he folly days. Of the small.coach for the big tour.
That the sun never sets on the British motor, Of holiday hatchings of new plans and schemes.
That we're already in the economic crisis unready.
That mobile publicity is now among the fine arts.
Of a query Whether an emergency scotch is washed down with soda, Of a threat of the re-institution of cab whistling in London. .
That the general status of coach parties is changing for the better.
That the standing of a proprietor is the vehicle itself as it runs.
That, when the user begins reckoning up costs, he finds that their name is legicn.
Mr. Greenwood, the Chester surveyor, asking for loads diverging on to virgin ground.
That the real secret of safe driving is always to reckon that the other chap's a fool.
That the Ministry of Transport will go up higher vtill if the word remains with Labour.
Of innumerable searehes after truth to win in the Shell competition over Bateman's creation.
That roads which are weak are best shown up by letting traffic on them develop to fit the public dcmand.
That there is no better medium for selling secondhand vehicles than in the classified advertisement section of this journal.
That the latest Board of Trade returns reveal interesting figures relating to imports and exports of commercial motor vehicles.
That few people had realized, until reading our " Narratives," what interesting history has been made by many of our vehicle builders.
Jt's strange that proprietors are to be required before long to adopt shorter buses for new rollingstock When so much money out of the taxes paid by them is spent on the straightening and widening of the curly bits of our roads.