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Of more taxis in Dublin.
Wooden wheels which are thirsty. More about travelling showrooms.
That some gearboxes need dentists.
That some laws are worse than asses.
• 0 The demand for uniform bus regulation.
That the rate cutter also cuts his friends.
That the acid test is important—for batteries. That rising miles often accompany falling costs.
That oil on the brakes is the undertaker's friend.
That directors' broadest smiles follow repeat orders.
Much controversy about Glasgow to London and back. 0 That hair-pin bends have no place in these shingled days.
That contempt prior to investigation is a British failing.
That the more wheels for the load the less woe for the road.
That mileage by guesswork is a sign of costs by guesswork.
That welshers fear standing charges ; they prefer running costs.
That a boiling radiator on an ice-carrying vehicle is rather the limit.
That the thimble-tube boiler should prevent the needle pricks of trouble.
, The cry, "All hands on to the covered top deck! the sooner the better.
That nothing is so important just now as unity, which goes deeper than the surface.
Of interesting extensidns of hire-purchase finance and facilities to the trade by Car Services, Ltd.
That the Cabinet is playing for loss of reputation, if nothing worse, in, proposing to filch money from the Road Fund.
From those who think the private car may leave 15s. in the Road Fund for each 5s. of h.p. tax levied upon it as a "luxury?'
That there is a real surplus in the National Health Fund which might be at least as well transferred to other purposes as the imaginary surplus in the Road Fund.
That the aid of Sir Eric Geddes, who is well outside politics but very much inside the motor industry, may have to be invoked to give the House of Commons chapter and verse at the psychological moment. That transport -cannot be transposed.
That too much that is official is also superficial.
Of a shake-hands between Stenson and Winston.
That vice jaws are not the only ones overworked.
Of the covered-top-deck bus as " the umbrella bus."
Of secret pourparlers to try again for a petrol tax.
That more's to be heard about "On with the 'Pneus."
That not every hand gets as good. as it's held out to receive. 0 That it's now seen to be a ease of all hands to the Road Fund pumps. 0 Paris discovering that asphalt in greasy weather is (and has) no catch.
That the final fight about the Road Fund will not be earlier than April next.
The hope that searching for oil in Spain won't be like building castles there. • That the average motorbus passenger in cellain areas is a very, rough customer.
That the load that tipped the Liverpool lorry must have been out for reprisals.
That too rich a Mixture on the road may be found in more carpets than carburetters.
That cost per mile and charge per mile should be closely, but not too closely, related.
That the people in the background over the attack on the Road Fund are thought to be railway directors.
A suggestion that, in the light of recent events, the correct title for the " B.P." portfolio would be u In the Land of No Shah."
That there will be no considerable extension of municipal control of motorbus routes during the life of the present Parliament. 0 That there are to be more chukkers in the game about the Road F I than in any polo match, and it is hoped at the finis chucker-out.
That "too old at forty" is proving the fate of numerous men who seek to commence in commercial motoring long after they should have been there.
That Basil Joy's idea of an informal monthly luncheon club, limited to secretaries of recognized national organizations in motordom and its allied kingdoms, has been much more of a success in practice than was thought possible a year ago.