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Of old trains on the move.
Of saddened eyes on traffic ties.
The wind prevailing motorwards.
Of old sores opened by new roads.
Of no tax yet proposed on silkstone.
Of more reserves to combat bus changes.
The usual grouse about little sand for much tar.
That money for roads is to be made to go much farther.
That they intend to get coal right again in Barnsley.
That somebody might take the blame .or new road subsidences.
Of a great whistling on the L.N.E.R. about their Great Westerning.
That road-surfacing will not be treated as an after-thought any more.
Of the intention to be up and doing over the Kingston by-pass impass6.
That oils from low-temperature carbonization of coal are often very waxy.
That there are to be a good many more sells about London's traffic control.
That molasses obtained from home-grown beets will also draw a State subsidy.
That the London Traffic Committee has laid its first egg and hatched its first plot.
That, although in a measure its foundling, the new Mersey tunnel will dot be Bootle's baby.
That there's more money burnt annually in passing to and from than in fires for all other purposes.
Of bright under-Mersey prospects for a new national link to join East with West and North Wales with both.
That Henley-on-Thames will Le a real char-abanes rendezvous on July 3rd and 4th for the regatta's last two days.
That there's nothing bogus about much new petrol, but too free a use of the descriptive "No, I " in respect of some of it.
That the V.M.U.A. has put its whole weight behind the Bill to authorize the construction of a road-traffic tunnel under the bed of the Mersey. Of an epidemic of collisions, Of a new " light" from America.
That England will probably thine up to it. That not every Summer Lane looks it.
That much coal will Le oil within two years.
That the coal wagons. trade should buy more steam 0 That passing to and fro Is transport's double chance.
Of okerating costs and the fairness of" " estimates. _o_.
That the cross-road puzzle is less serious than that of the cross-roads.
Of Inside passengers suffering from exhausted air supply—plus exhaust.
That the Mersey tunnel will be a magnet, but not before 1931 at the earliest.
"Spread the load and spare the road '1 as a suitable multi-axle slogan.
That a sympathetic nature is sometimes a disadvantage—especially in asphalt.
That the Maucislay special passenger chassis should be an ideal particular-passenger chassis.
"At last" from many, who had been grasping for that P.S.V. report to meast re their risk of gasping. ' 0 That, if some bus-owners were to take a journey in one of their own buses, they wouldn't honestly describe it as a joy-ride.
That "the Zenith smile" must .3 ineradicable if a driver could keep it going when swathed in a woollen scarf during the heat-wtse.
Of a motor coach which held the road for a couple of miles, although it carried a rear-view mirror and passengers who were looking back.
It asserted that no class of undertaking is, in fact, more heavily subsidized by local ratepayers as a whole than are the railways as a whole.
That a railway protagonist, whose letter is published in this issue, thinks otherwise.