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That automatic fan control would be very unpopular with movie stars.
That it is a pity how some people's ability is chiefly exercised in work dodging.
From an American coach tourist at Stratford on Avon: ".... and is that the Shakespeare Cathedral?"
That the Sussex Evening Society proposes to organize coach trips to places of especial interest in the county.
That, presumably, their plans are for 1956, as the time for evening trips this year is nearly over.
That 90 per cent, of each subscription paid to the Traders Road Transport Association in 1954 is to be treated as an allowable expense for Income Tax purposes.
From a bus conductress lamenting the lack of interest displayed by the public in the destination indicators on buses, "If a scarlet fire engine drew up at a bus stop, people would automatically climb on to it! " Of some who still think that accurate hand signals arc preferable to mechanical devices.
A driver saying, between sneezes, that the best • device for a rapid cold start is a draughty cab.
Of a letter to a Sussex weekly suggesting that surplus soil from a building site should be used for levelling " the,appalling holes and bumps" in local roads.
That, were the writer's advice to be taken, the last state of those roads would be worse than the first, especially as the local soil is mainly heavy clay.
• From a reader, that when describing the U.S.A. electronic scale, which records the weight, speed and number of vehicles passing over it, we did not say whether "the number" meant how many vehicles or their registration numbers That this would make it a sort of robot "private eye."