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Of some more hashes to settle.
That the good driver is tender to all his wheels.
That it is not too early to think about November.
Nothing yet of commercial aeroplanes with trailers.
That laying down motor law must mean taking it up.
That our trade depression may give place to an anti-cyclone.
That benzole interests are moving contingently to be tax-exempted. 0 Someone saying that Pegasus is the only " possible" horse for London. 0 That when railway rates go up road transport prospects follow suit. 0 r_1711at drivers who overtake on the bend will some day be caught bending.
Of drops of mechanical road transport comfort' created by railway rises. , Of Sussex roads " gritted " with clayey sand which "goes like butter" in a thaw.
That there's seldom a mixture as before in the medicine of the motorbus world.
That the sequel to Mother Shipton's prophecy is" Carriages wit/i horses must go."
A chorus from a. cover-top bus—" The more we dodge the weather the happier we shall be."
That the efficiency of the brake should not be dependent on the weight behind the driver's foot.
Of a 1913 Albion truck which has covered nearly 150,000 miles in New Zealand and is still running.
Complaints that during recent frosts roadmen were too apt to ca' canny with the sand on awkward hills.
That Mr. Churchill has been heard singing "Beer, beer, glorious beer" without giving any indication as to how far he now contemplates filling himself up from the poor brewers.
That Mr. W. P. O'Neill, the chairman of the Ulster Motor Coach Owners' Association, forecasts many possible developments in connection with road transport in the north of Ireland.
The suggestion that 'butchers' "dual-purpose" vans should be fitted with a complete lining of sliding panels, io he used when meat is carried and removed before he vehicles are employed for the transport of animals for slaughter.
That the coupling and uncoupling of horse-boxes is the most frequent cause of bad time-keeping by passenger trains, and that on most local services movement of a solitary horse will take precedence of the convenience and 'engagements of 100 or more passengers, the involved delays fer whom seem to count for nothing with railway staffs. Tax attacks.
Of all the tax-guessers at play.
Of rigid six-wheeler wire-pulling. Many things that one has to cheek.
That tyres are to be McKennaized.
Of a suggested silencer trial in the near fnfure.
Of good business in electriC lighting for lorries.
That ignition by coil. means starting without toil.
Appreciation of the Underground omnibus lecture.
The vehicle tax is not yet gone out nor worn out.
That the A.D.C. drivers' badges are now available free. 0 Of widespread industrial alarm over the new railway rates.
That Mr. Churchill will whistle again when he's got the tin. 0 That the aerial now ranks amongst the highest of highbrows.
That a parent reviver for used motor fuel is the latest inventor's dream.
Of petrol kwhich do not always respond to the -hotwater treafrment.
That a man who looks into a petrol tank with the aid of a candle will never grow old.
That new buses are rivalling trams in capacity— another tram argument squashed.
That many a busy pen and voice are on the railway pay-roll without disclosure of the fact.
That the padded " outside " seat is not the least of the points in favour of the cover-top Mis.
That it's harder to get married now with the other Government to support in the first place.
No explanation except the wireless as to why so many people insist on saying inter-citing instead of in-treating.
A suggestion that, instead of having their hearts there, motor drivers should wear a red safety-first triangle on their sleeves.