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Of new feats in motorbus seating features.
Of tougher stuff coming on for motorbus routes.
That Governments are still what we make them.
That the motorway group is not going motorwise.
That there's a hot-brick feeling in the Civil Service.
That not every designer can effectively fill "space."
What the railways say, but not always what they mean.
That proerastination in the D.O. is the thief of design.
Of not a few motorvans too old to go on their travels.
That reasons for decisions remain sources of danger.
That Sir Henry Maybury stands wear and tear as amazingly well as his roads.
That many a thing of excellent promise is all too soon politimaned nowadays.
That the " Riley" signature to Bonallack's ad. ought, surely, to have been "Smiley."
Of much anxiety in the House concerning the actions and exactions of its un-submerged third.
That the removal of central standards would make for increased elasticity in the traffic lines.
Of some remarkable improvements in shale oil retorts and a formidable rival to "cracked oils."
Somebody saying : "No wonder the streets are so greasy if they've been letting ILO play that game."
That advocacy of lower taxation for private motorcars will need more effective handling to become effective. 0 That for "bite the dust" poets have hesitated to write "lick the tar," but that they should come to it before long.
That dancing attire is being greatly protected this winter by the more general use of the private motorbus at hire.
That someone remarked, after reading last week's "Here's One "—" Of course, there are pot-holes on every — road now."
How some of the turns on the Tyrol motor-diligence routes make our English "hair-pin bends" seem obtuse angles in comparison.
That if motorbus length for the country is cut down by a single foot below 27 ft. 6 ins, it will mean tens of thousands more tired feet each week.
"The Skatch " telling how the big bus company that " skimmed the cream" off the small man's route is now trying to curdle the milk of it.
That, according to the trend of chassis layout, plus road-construction, there's the future possibility of axles A, B, C, D, E, . . . per vehicle.
That, at any rate, this will mean a lighter load per foot run, That there IS an awakening!
No answers where there should be some.
That prices for commercial vehicles will not fall.
That business to-day may not be business tomorrow.
That Nature has dropped some of her worst weather.
That sometimes a fierce clutch provides a toothsome morsel.
Of an increasing demand for users' testimony as a buyers' guide.
That the hub of the taxation hubbub has once more been shock-shifted.
That not every breakaway helps to a decision in any class of fighting.
That when fresh motor legislation does come it will not do so piecemeal.
That change will continue mostly Exchange and by no means arithmetic.
That deliberate cramming has become chronic in too many London thoroughfares.
That it was Disraeli who wrote : "Damn your principles! Stick to your party."
That an operating manager who does not mind his fuel bill will hardly mind anything.
That profits cannot always be made even though one may always profit from experience.
That there's more mud:. on more roads than more money spent on them leads one to expect.
Many a heavy footfall on the motor-taxation football, and that no goal need be expected before cricket is played.
From sugar-haulage circles of a well-behaved seven-tanner frequently getting an extra ton aboard " as a sweetener."
That certain bus conductors in a midland city often have to solve the problem of 95 into 58 after their backs are turned.
That, whereas measures gave place to halfmeasures in the last Parliament, the present one may produce no measures at all, but only waits.