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That one tipping-gear maker claims to have had 20 years' "leadership in the tipping field."
That the company is obviously not of Scottish origin.
Conjectures as to when road-traffic legislation will equal, in bulk, the railway legislation of the past century.
That railway-owned road-rail containers have grown from 506 to 8,581 in six years.
That a country that persists in supporting the obsolete will itself become a back number.
That some small boys may be tempted to use the new rubber street-refuge posts as catapults.
—0 — That Carter, Paterson andCo. has ordered 25 Pugs from Commers, but this is no indication that it is going to the dogs. Of gales " hustling " small boxvans on exposed roads.
That nine out of ten pedestrians look around before moving to the side of the road when they hear a motor horn behind them.
That, in turning, they often (no doubt unconsciously) step farther into the fairway.
That 13 seems to have been an unlucky number for MajorGeneral Sir Reginald Ford.
Someone remarking how funny it is that contraptions should be necessary for cooling the I.C.E. '
That, contrary to railway opinion, an "adequate service" does not mean a "railway service."
That a certain transport company, famous for heavy loads, is not employing its initials .o advertise Bovril.