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Too mita' talk of rival buses.' That not every precis is precise.
• Of much Mobiloil writing on the wall.
That the ad. might have read :—" If Mobiloil use is a saver, where without shall ye save ? "1 People admiring the F.W.D.. showy ad.
A lot of friends are in the dentist's hands.
That it's really all over with the petrol tax.
That Hobson's choice is seldom to speak in public.
That getting the best kind of "gate " remains "a problem.
That the latest synonym for "Little Mary" is " Twelve by five."
Of Bunyan's contributions to the comfort of the motor pilgrims' progress.
That the Olymp41 Show is one of the things the General Election cannot harm.
That nowadays there are no fields bordering our high roads—only "eligible building sites."
That many light van owners are taking up C.M.U.A. membership at Stand 75 at Olympia.
That it's the intention of the S.M.M. and T. to buy still more brains for the good of the industry.
That it is foolish to put the cart before the horse,' but equally foolish not to place the motor vehicle there.
Of a U.S.A. design for a heater in the lubricating. oil circuit to boil off any condensed fuel where paraffin used., That, on the whole, the French commercial-vehicle . industry is years behind what has been done in England.
That when a motor van does 24 m.p.g, on a country run it may be doing well at 12 m.p.g. on town deliveries.
Of Sussex-roads so slippery during a recent frost that a milkman unharnessed his horse and took the shafts himself for the morning round.
That this ought to bring home to him the advantages of mechanical transport.
That, as a route to Olympia, the inner circle to High Street, Kensington' plus a bus, beats every time any effort via Edgware Road and/or Addison Road.
That commercial motor traffic in the Strand and • Oxford Street is contributing to the Road Fund at a rate in excess of £10,000 per annum per mile of highway.
That there's 'still so much unemployment organization inevitably thrown on to Sir Henry Maybury's broad shoulders that his attenuated staff in the Roads Department continues to be over-employed. Of ,Scammells and of Scammellets.
Of the tractability of the tractor-lb:is.
That the Agricultural Hall keeps popping up.
That tipping bodies seem to leave Chile cold.
That more and more weight-saving will be tried.
Rumblings about some of London's motorbuses. That there are still some cosy corners at Olympia.
That the railway, not road transport, keeps seeking protection.
That it's thought tariff reform should now extend to the motor insurance world.
Sighs of relief from users of petrol lamps to whom a tax would be far from welcome.
Of a " petrol-green " hat in a milliner's colour list, but no mention of a "methylated mauve."
That a fortune awaits the man who irrvents a lamp which cart emit rays that will penetrate fog or mist.
That Brighton matinee audiences gave no encore to the breakdown performed by the electricity works.
That Paris traffic is still liable to frequent and complete stoppage while the combatants argue it out.
That, while the rule of the road is, of course, "Keep to the Right," the traffic when passing through some only, of the " octroi " gates has to keep to the left— with charming and orderly results, it may be imagined.
That the lady in the Shell advertisement had an amazingly true aim—or else the petrol can was a gusher.
That Mr. Richard S. Tilling, J.P., chairman of the London and Provincial Omnibus Owners' Association, hunts three days a week.
That direct applications for cards of admission to the Road Traffic Conference may still be addressed to Mr. F. G. Bristow at 50, Pall Mall, London, S. W.1.
Of more roller-skating than motoring on the, as ;vet, little-used three-mile open stretch of the new Western Highway which by-passes Hounslow and will later cut out Brentford.
That Sir Joseph Broodbank, president of the Institute of Transport and vice-chairman of the Port of London Authority, will give a small dinner party at the Reform Club on the 29th inst.