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Of cigar lighters in drivers' cabs.
That after last Sunday's cruise some Conference delegates will stick to the roads.
Someone saying that the casualty list will always be heavy so long as wheels and legs share the same road.
The query: "Who, only a little while ago, could have believed that cork rivets could be employed successfully for securing clutch friction material?"
That apart from the proposed increase of 5 per cent. in railway freight charges, newspaper proprietors are faced with shorter working hours and higher prices for paper.
Of few wails at the C.M. U. A. Conference.
Of many plums in Mr. D. I. Sandelson's paper on current legislation.
It said that the road-transport industry should enjoy the status of a profession.
That all municipal buses now running in Budapest have been fitted with 72 h.p. oil engines. That war wages around wages.
Of drivers who say that the only way to drive in comfort is to by-pass every by-pass.
A driver complaining that winter for him is just one damned cold after another through engine heat in a draughty cab.
That the record-breaking motor boat " Bluebird " is on exhibition at Morris House, Berkeley Square, London, W.1, until next Friday.
That if, in the near future, transport managers drop a few " Look-see-yon's" and " Whateffers " into their conversation, it will be only the effect of the Portheawl Conference.
That big bbclies often conceal small
Of a railway idea that the road men at Porthcawl were basking sharks.
That current municipal accounts prove the value of the bus and troIleybus.
That area service managers put up big weekly mileages on behalf of operators.