ONE HEARS That it's the user that has made the maker.
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Of road surfaces wrecked by frost and thaw.
Of long-distance buses filled to capacity with Christmas travellers.
That the proof of the municipal motorbus pudding is in the eating of tramway routes.
That instead of giving him a happy month in the New Year it gave him a bad night in the old one.
That many, who are not forced to travel on a special day, prefer to wait for a chance of better weather.
A cynic remarking that he knew it must be getting near Christmas because taximen were becoming almost polite.
That some owner-drivers occasionally tip a tin of aviation spirit into their tanks to aid cold-weather starting and running.
Someone remarking that he didn't know what became Of worn-out solid tyres until he had a mince-pie at a restaurant last week.
That pockets are expected to be bottomless at Christmas and it is rather hard luck when most People's have a 'hole in the bottom already.
That Junction Road, Burgess Hill (Sussex), after being closed since July, is once more open to through traffic and its new concrete surface is much appreciated by drivers. That it's bad for any engine to try dry pumping. That England's only really dry season is a season ticket.
That there has been a further rush of municipal orders for new motorbuses.
That there are still 88 toll bridges and 55 toll roads in existence in England and Wales.
That, in this uncertain climate, blue skies one day are not always indicative of fine Weather the next.
That the weather during Christmas shopping time converted many a fresh-air fiend into a staunch advocate a the covered-top bus.
That a De Dion-Bouton motor coach with a straight-eight-cylindered engine may shortly be expected.
That little drops of water make the mighty ocean and every little dropped bus ticket helps to make a mighty mess of the streets.
Someone asking what happens when water, electric or telephone companies, want. to go "treasure hunting" under a new concrete road.
That the only advantage of the train over the long-distance bus is that you haven't to book and pay for Your seat in advauce, trusting the weather.
That a combined effort is contemplatedby some road transport eraployerszto conspire together with some Labour leaders to the end that the Royal Commission shall recommend a tight hand on haulage by road motor.