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Not every announcer as a pronouncer. Cf a heavy demand for driving gloves.
That there's almost a coal glut already, Of bumpy ridges on most railway bridges.
Of more railwaymen and money put up to hit road Ira nsport.
Of all the best Christmas parcels safe-homed by motorvan.
That a kill in motorbus hunting is usual only after a long run.
That very little back-to-the-horse talk gets farther than Liverpool.
Of much shakiness at the Treasury as to the expediency of a petrol tax That the rigid-frame six-wheeler does hest on curves when on pneumatics.
That " minimum tax" is now one of the sales features of several truck builders.
That Coventon's, Ltd., has ordered two more box vans, each to carry 12 tons.
Of a hot-pot inside each cylinder to be heard more of as a successful vaporizer. • That some rivals in the oil trade give nothing away hut one another's characters.
That faults in road transport work their own cure more quickly than any others.
Of a certain roughness on uncertain motorbus routes where competition has edges on it.
That Lord Lee of Fareham expected a rather mixed reception for the London Bridges Report.
That there are sure to be cheers when there are enough seats in the last bus home on Christmas Eve.
That the Empire Industries Association is out to encourage the extension of all forms of land transport, That more than the usual percentage of bad guesses was made by way of forecast concerning the report of the London Bridges Royal Commission.
That the Wolverhampton 0x-wheeled trolley-bus put into service on the Wolverhampton-Sedgeley ronte recently is already proving a great success.
That. admirers are many and comments even more numerous.
That other towns are watching this innovation carefully.
That only some 200 new chassis are needed for the L.G.O.C. 1927 programme under the Traffic 'Committee's restrictions, but that 1928 will see a change in more senses than one. Of drops in battery prices. That petrol men prefer blends. Of truck mudguards at 11s. a pair.
That " winter wisdom " is now in evidence. Of no end to the end-point • of some petrol& That an ambulance should go softly all its days.
That pedestrians will come into more prominence.
.. Of higher average speeds in winter, owing t6 clearer roads.
That fire-engine drivers must see to it that they hasten slowly.
Of those who think that the magistrate, not the fireengine driver, exceeded the limit at Brighton, That Piekfords, Ltd., have just ordered another 13 Dyson trailers. 0 Of the St. Albans filling station for drivers and their tanks as well.
That coaelthody builders • might remember that we are a long-footedrace.
Much too often of 14-ton loads carried and hauled by some 6-ton steam wagons.
That Indian bus proprietors badly need to study our tables of operating costs.
That some six-wheeled-vehicle makers are looking for "virgin ground and swamp."
An unpleasant dripping sound in the garage if one omits to take frost precautions.
Someone wishing that "w• ider still and wider shall thy bounds be Set" were a bus-body prophecy.
That 4-ton overloads are not always wise even on the smooth and level roads of Greater London.
Drivers complaining that some Sussex roads have "their middles all shoved up to the sides" by heavy traffic.
That the United Automobile Service Co. contemplates purchasing additional vehicles and building new garages.
That the final form of the Motor Traffic Regulation Bill (Northern Ireland) was " drawn like a tooth" from an unwilling Government.
That manufacturers of ambulances might pay more attention to their construction if they had any certain prospect of being "fragile goods" therein themselves.