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Of aeroplane overcrowding as the 11108t up-todate offence.
Somebody wanting to know if aeroplanes have a Minis°11 line!
That railway competition Makes all-the-yearround service essential to success.
That ninny a surveyor earns the praise of his council (and the curses of road-users) by economiz ing tar. • From an eXpert that, to tar a road properly, two barrels should be allowed to every forty yards and the new dressing should be left for an hour before it is sanded.
That this counsel of perfection cannot be followed if the whole width' of the road be tarred in one Spraying.
How a farmer, though warned on the previous day, insisted on driving his cows in at the usual time and that, as the road was tarred and not sanded, he wished he hadn't.
That a marriage in town, followed by.a reception in the country, would have been impossible in the days of rail and horse transport. • That with mechanical road transport all things are possible.
That the new Guys have appeared in October.
That one may now both see and see by blue stars. • That the General Election is not likely to take place until the latter half of 1929.
That it was ever unwise to brag about the safety of any form of transport.
Of an erroneous idea that the " straight-eight" is the only honest part of motoring.
Of cash-register methods about to be brought into use for petrol-filling stations.
That Mr. Shrapnell-Smith has recently accepted two new directorships and declined six.
That Sir Herbert Austin has introduced the silent after-dinner speaker.
That the innovation at the Austin banquet was productive of considerable talk and discussion afterwards.
That the higher the average load on the engine the smaller the saying with free-wheel transmission.
That a realized 10-per-cent. economy on any motor-fuel bill is good enough to get on with—other things being equal.
That the Royal Commissioners are busying, themselves trying to clear the air as to what their task really is before setting about it.
The call of the mud.
That the motor-coach must 'not hibernate.
That it often pays to follow the crowd.