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That food production at home may count for more.
Of protests from Manchester against the assertion that the City believes in the motorway.
That the prophecy in these columns of November 20th that the French franc would be at 100 within three months was exactly fulfilled.
That we are commencing-to wish that a few million' of them had been sold forward on our account.
That the dinner of the Institute of Transport was one of the most interesting of the year's functions. • That the London Midland and Scottish Railway Co. is amongst those who are fitting thimble tubo fire boxes to some of their. Sentinel wagons.
From a fuel prophet, that it's to remain a case of plus and • not surplus.
That C.M.T.T.A, membership has . plenty of spring in it.
Of fabricated shackles whiah do NOT involve warp and woof.
There'sno accounting f o r some account. ing, except by the lack of it.
That there are more twists and turns in road policy than are seen at t h finish.
0 That Mr. Winter Gray is conducting the work of. the Institute of Transport as efficiently as did Mr. Blain. .
r That coal will be put on the stop list, but riot by the miners until the weather is nice enough for them to like it.
That the red ribbon of the Minister of Transport's .badge as a Companion of Honour goes down well with many of his colleagues.
That the success of the display at Maidstone of commercial motors may result in the idea being repeated in other parts of the country.
Concerning_ the fleet of six Thornycrofts in the F.M.S. (illustrated in our issue No. 98), that The sole replacement order in eighteen months for one grease-cup was surely the sign manual of reliability and efficient upkeep.
Also, comparatively speaking, that the bill was not worth the paper written on. That the correct syntheses of colloidal fuel will depend upon its suspension.
That the practical foundryman's judgment sometimes outwits the designer's factor of safety.
That it's not been a bad plan, on the whole, to commit most of the cares of 'motor taxpayers to the care of those who care most.
That carters have a regrettable penchant for pulling up for a chat just round a blind corner, preferably at the foot of a steep incline.
That reports from our principal cities and towns show an upward movement in motor licences of all classes for January, 1.924, as compared with January, 1923.
No end to testimony t public reliance upon motorbuses.
That the incidence of motor taxation is a, ripe and yet a sour topic.
0 Judging • b y certain Patent Office records; that it is a difficult job nowadays to blaze a new trail.
Of disputes as to the real meaning of equal opportunities for all in the matter of motorbus licensing.
— It is estimated that no regular motorbus services are yet established On approximately 120,000 miles of highways (mostly rural) in Great Britain, the route-mileage so served being under 60,000.
That the Duke of York has asked Mr. ShrapnellSmith to lend a hand over funds for the rebuilding and extension of certain clubs for working boys in the East End of London, and that S.-S. will send out the S.O.S. in May and June next