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Of black faces ai Blackfriars.
Less when driving than is hooted at one.
Of large hoods that keep going off the rails.
About and roundabout, as well as straight out.
Nobody pretending that all is as well as can be. That houses may have to be cast to aid production.
That Lyons at Wembley are amongst its popular wonders. 0 That numerous Lancashire coal mines may have to close down.
Of merry-go-rounds modernized pictorially and motorially.
That shouting from a motor vehicle is legally not audible warning.
That Col, Crompton ascribes his years since 75 to the bacillus Bulgaris.
That discussion on Col. Sinnott's paper at Bristol may prove to be cementitious.
That no date is fixed for Waterloo Bridge renewed to be underwheel again.
And thal no date may ever be fixed.
That there is only a very far-away prospect for anybody of lower motor taxation.
That adequate and proper lighting of commercial vehicles will be more stringently enforced next winter.
That country cousins who watch East meet West at the Mansion House think they too often stick there.
That the Roodee at Chester differs from the Rodeo at Wembley in that motors are given no place in the latter.
That it wants more than an irresponsible sense of disproportion to say," no" when asked if London is fuller than usual.
That it's high time extensions of the Science Museum at South Kensington were made instead of being still talked about.
That the Empire in a tank on Mercator's projection in the British Government's Pavilion is another of the popular wonders at Wembley.
That the happy valleys of horse days are giving place to the giddy hilltops for wayside stops.
That where there's competition and choice of vehicle at equal fares in the country, the bus with the better body gets the trade every time.
That the complete report of the Empire Motor Fuels Committee will shortly be ready as a joint publication with the aid of the institution of Automobile Engineers. That hire-purchasers are often bad insurance risks.
. That politicians' meat may be the motor trade's poison.
Of nearly as much water flowing over a London bridge as under it.
Someone describing the Zenith ad. as an outgrowing of the spirit.
Of four tons of empty cement bags as a busy builder's return load.
The wish that some splash-guard design would answer the call of the mud, That Ford is planning to increase production by 15 per cent. to 20 per cent.
Of many who found last week's "Here's One" most extraordinarily helpful.
Of the export of skilled labour and its serious import to an almost killed industry.
Of beatings in store for those who have been relying on bleatings instead cCf facts.
That we pay nearly twice as much for roads as was originally considered a reasonable figure.
That modern " intensive " building would be an impossibility without mechanical transport.
As an argument in favour of a silent-running vehicle, that a noisy noise annoys a nice ateerer.
That the ideal passenger vehicle would be one which felt no road shocks though road showed rocks.
Of a lady who threw down the C.M. with the complaint that there were never any funny advertisements in it now.
That a large petrol store close by a gasworks has been anxiously watched by its neighbours during recent thunderstorms.
That the congestion caused by the slow horse vehicles is particularly noticeable in the neighbourhood of Blackfriars Bridge.
That dancing space may before long be provided amidships in some of the larger motor coaches by the adoption of adjustable or removable seating.
That the h.p. tax according to Treasury (R.A.C.) rating is being more widely .disrated than was formerly the case, and that critics other than Ford who want a stroke-bore ratio applied to that .21 per unit suggest a ratio of 1.4 to 1 as normal, whieh would mean 25S: nor h.n. when the ratio was 1.75 to 1.