One Hears—
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That the good haulier should be clapped—but not in irons.
That you can build side-walks, but you cannot yet make pedestrians use them, on country roads at any rate.
hat the Spanish mêlée has already shown up weak features in certain armaments, not excluding tanks and transport vehicles.
Of a need for something new in display bodies.
Of hauliers displaying more interest in their costing.
That crops may be late but Garnering is proceeding apace.
That without ballast some haulage contractors would be sunk.
That a good tipper should receive a hearty welcome in most places.
That so far the Government's attitude has been "You must hand it to the railways."
That safety glass must be used as a. windscreen, but the glass taken as a coldscreen is unsafe if used to excess. At last, of agrtement between pedestrian, cyclist and motorist on a point of major importance.
Of instances where the provision of road islands has increased both congestion and the possibility of accident.
Of a haulier who remarked, after hearing the expression "keeping a watch on costs," that it was costs which had made him pawn his timepiece.
That "lithe drops of water, little grains of sand" upset some engines.
That the " L" plate on some heavies aptly describes the feelings of the man at the wheel.
That the railways like road transport to do the spadework and let them reap the benefits.
That road transport is Everyman's pigeon, yet he seems contented to look on while the railway plucks it.
Of a 1906 Leyland steam wagon belonging to a Halifax carpet manufacturer being still in regular service.
In 1937, of an association memb er who did not know that he could not put a vehicle on the road without permission.