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That good revenue is the physic for costs. That there can be differences in diffidences. That low bridges can produce deep curses. That little things matter much in bus matters. That weak bridges hinder production of all kinds.
Of the Hants and Dorset Motor Omnibus Co. reaching out.
That the long and the short in the bus world are often equally tall.
That the Ministry of Transport as such has still more than a dog's chance.
That anticipation is not sweeter than realization in pence earned per bus-mile.
Of bus and coach owners who keep on hopin' they'll get finer weather in the mornin'.
That more than one representative of British concerns is present at the trial of gas-producer lorries which is now being conducted in France.
Admiration expressed afresh for Lord Ashfield's astuteness in and about London's passenger-transport complexes now slowly yielding to his treatment.
Few complaints about motorbuses other than as to the lack of them on some very rural roads where would-be passengers are still condemned to walk.
Mixed opinions being expressed concerning the wisdom of excluding taxicabs from some of the important London streets during certain hours of the day.
That any new cab ranks should be established in side streets close to their junction with the main arteries. 0 That the fixing of awkward bus-stopping places and the relegation of cabs to back streets may give the tube traffic a boost.
That the C.M.U.A. president was right when he alone stuck out in 1922 for the 27-71-ft. omnibus now agreed for four wheels by those who then—and until quite recently —disagreed.
That when Mr. Churchill was fishing for new sources of revenue in 1926 and 1927 he approved extensions of the McKenna duties to commercial chassis and tyres because he liked to rout just as well as to get Uncle Sam on. That crises still reveal character.
From a schoolboy that "knots are liquid m.p.h."
Of the trolley-5us as the thin edge of the wedge.
That a haulier can seldom do his round in bogey.
That the need for a cool head isn't limited to cylinders.
Of those who will travel far to gee the sun get a good hiding.
Of an inventor who believes that he has designed an exhaustless internal-combustion engine.
Someone asking for a black list of motorists who support the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Road Fund depredations.
That the range of new Leyland six-cylinder passenger models will include the Tiger, the Tigress, the Titan and the Titanic.
That the number of itinerant fishmongers with cycle combinations grows each week and there seems to be business for them all.
That some of them dream of a small van in the svseet by-and-by. 0 Someone wondering why the Dennis low load-line chassis hasn't inspired some lyricist to write a song" Way Down in Dennis E."
How a newly laid stretch of tarred macadam closely resembled a ploughed field after the passing of a showman's two tractors with strings of vans behind them.
That the owner said he felt no compunction for the mess he had made of the road, for he had to pay £120 per annum for the right to run on it, so the Government ought to see that it was fit to stand such traffic. (Road Fund conjurers, please note.) A. pessimistic pedestrian remarking that the roundabout traffic system may have saved a lot of money by obviating the necessity for street widening, but it must have cost a heap in doctors' fees.