That every traffic has its muddle. That little and often fills tho bus.
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That vanners no longer make the van.
That not only the weather can be windy.
That it's dull, if safer, to do as most do.
That every bus runs as its own main line.
Of thefts in, hut not of, motor omnibuses.
Of relatively few motorbuses a-s early risers.
Of drivers forgotten when dangers are past.
Of roads as bad to mend as some manners. .
That the motorbus is a good money-spreader. Of a universal cure found for headlight glare. Noisy exhausts when and where one shouldn't.
That it's often near the bone with the little bus.
Very seldom of woes from horseless bus-owners.
That good luck holds no guarantee of continuity.
Of several bad bargains being made the best of.
That one must not put thick fares on thin traffic.
That many can pick a route who cannot work it.
That bus services have improved railway facilities.
That there will be sanction for standing passengers. That a proverb is a maxim stated as an aphorism.
That nothing but the job done counts in road ser vice. '
Of more passengers who pay little but expect much.
That more than enough is too much in a faretable.
That many bus companies suffer from evident youth.
That punctuality often nourishes motorbus patronage.
That no Berks, barks are to be heard by the London and Home Counties Traffic Authority.
That Mr. R. S. Tilling is amongst the grand old men of road transport who keep their youth by hunting.
• That the British Commercial Gas Association and the Coke Association of Great Britain may begin to evince real interest in the encouragement of portable producer sets for commercial motors.
The following seasonable rhyme :— " A fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind, And yet a fellow feeling for his purse Incessantly, for Christmas tips, may find No wondrous kind of feeling, but a curse." That faint spark never won.
That not every chairman does the work.
That a bus should run well as well as long.
Of more waste, less speed in London's street traffic.
Of more wheels, each one doing its bit—and its bite.
Of the G.P.O. box vans turned into Christmas-box vans.
" The farther from transport the farther from That the temper of all ratepayers is permanently soured.
That reckoning the tyre as a part of a whole makes a better whole.
Also that anybody knowing" a better whole" will naturally go for it.
That trade catering for motoring parties has had its ups and downs.
That it will be to England's advantage to grow sugar-beet, be it for food or fuel.
That, at this fe(a)stive season, many a gourmand regrets the lost elasticity of youth.
Still, unfortunately, of the lady who petrol-cleans her jumper in the washbasin and then pulls out the plug.
That they mean to have many more commercial motors of all types in both the Far East and the Near East.
That every London bus service may soon, as regards passengers, be run on the principle of first come first served.
That it sometimes still pays provincial bus-owners • to get away with more load than the law at present allows them to do.
That a motor thief steals motors, a dog thief steals dogs ; but the eat thief hasn't taken the cat yet, although he deserves to get it.
That cheap industrial alcohol is now on sale by Herbert Green and Co., of 83, Pall Mall, for antidetonation in the insides of petrol-engine cylinders and for anti-freezing in their jackets.