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The cuckoo.
Of wobbles on cobbles.
Of a Ford with a milk float.
Of German wealth—saving the mark! Of a. Benz lorry in hiding at Coventry.
Of "plying for hire" as a pliable term.
Good-bye to the 'North-Western lurry-horse.
Bumpety-bump on country highways.
Consequently, that it is quite time the pot-holes were scarified out of existence.
"Leave well alone "—if there is a lot of lime in the water.
That German " gold " consists mostly of marks on paper.
That the cylinder was easily bored through its own silicon (tent).
That there are those who will be sold up if they don't pay up.
"Do keep your head cool! " as the radiator said to the cylinder.
"You did give ins such a start!" as the engine said to the dynamo.
That industry impoverished by high prices will be renewed by low.
That there are many shocks and stares in motor finance just now.
Of a strong plea on behalf of band brakes for front wheels of chars-h-bancs.
Of sweet running by lorries for a :Maidstone firm where Sharp's the word.
"Little noises" endeavouring to make "big noises" either pay up or shut up.
That relying too much upon " goodwill " stifles "fancy free" what to make next.
"I don't want to lose my temper!" as the crystallized connecting rod said to the crankshaft.
That the Antipodes' " trades " are beginning to blow a certain Coventry lorry builder some good. _0_ • That The Daily Mail urges economy on one page and blames the Government for aircraft meanness on another.
Of developments in the expanding of piston rings by heat-treatment, thereby superseding internal hammering.
That Henry Ford does not contemplate the manufacture of synthetic oysters out of the ingredients sprat and shell. That, according: to "The Inspector," the edifice of Eric is a wreck, That. a motor coach should have every kind of brake except a breakdown.
Of the inquiry, "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your eardan go ?"
That " Ca' the loads to the roads, my bonnie railie-o I" is Sir Erie's latest national song.
That the motor road crossing Gold Coast Colony, from east to west, is now approaching completion.
That it is the easiest thing in the world just now to do someone, an ill turn without risk of detection.
That the A.B.M.M. should do a little more propaganda work—for instance, to combat new provincial bus schemes.
That the motor coach driver's jab will be much sought after this surnmer' and that, in consequence, most coaches will be well driven.
" We don't seem to hit it off ! " from the mechanic to the hammer, after their united efforts had failed to budge the " interchangeable " wheeL That the M.O.T. must not give the railways sufficient power to carry everything, or the "will to strike would then be hydra-headed indeed.
'That, in a year's time there will be more "orphan" vehicles in existence, of every nationality, than there have ever been before. Another legacy of the war! ._0_ That the. Shropshire County Council is experimenting with a mechanical g-ritospreader attached to a steam wagon, for sprinkling upon slippery road surfaces.
That a certain American tractor maker is about to exploit the Chinese market and that the two hundred and thirty correspondents who have written in to remind us that the Chinese have always been associated with junk are too late, for we had already thought of it ourselves.