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Of corks all a-popping. Of coals all a-toppling.
Of hail during some smiling morns.
Of busy bookings for football club fans.
That road-mendyng makyth muche mudde.
Of more tradesmen's protests against one-way raffle sch CMOS_
glut London's bus drivers may shortly be white sleeved. • Cross words and puzzles about the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
or a suggestion of coloured route number plates for London's buses.
That white rubber blocks for safety lines are to be widely tested.
That the tractor market in this country is not so dead as many people think.
Of bathrooms for commercial motor drivers at roadside petrol service stations.
That to bridge or not to bridge the Thames still depends upon both money and.moodt.
That if a motor business is backward a change of motor will not always push it forward.
That the information of the daily Press on some motoring matters is often much out of date.
That roads which cost 0.33d. per ton-mile of traffic in Ifi22 are now down to 0.10d. per ton-mile and even less.
That an Association of Road, Passenger Transport Officials of Soath Africa is being formed in Johannesburg.
That Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies bodybuilding department carries a stock of timber valued at over 1:35.000.
That there are few hotter spots lin London's raffle than in Aidgate between Gardiner's Corner and the 'Minories.
That Mr. E. W. Rudd's ScammeR six-wheelers enjoy an enviable reputation for first arrivals in Smithfield Market 0' nights.
That the Great Southern Railway is contemplating the starting"of a number of road passenger and goodscarrying services in the Irish Free State. '
That owing to recent 'legislation some of our weekend contemporaries have cesspool empliers for sale in good condition. One is fitted with enough hose to reach the lowest depths.
Of revellers besnowed.
Of more tar and less waltzing on British roads. That not all offered "bargains" are really so.
Of folks stunned by new bus-competition prospects west of Dover.
That wireless can be tireless, in which it differs from any road motor..
Somebody blaming a hired farm tractor as a footand-mouth carrier.
That the various motoring organizations may yet go in for community singing.
That the Chancellor is advised there's too much profit in tobacco and cigarettes.
That £3,000,000 a year of new taxes on commercial motors will take both finding and getting.
That any man who says the new motor taxation doesn't matter is no friend of the industry.
That Sir Henry Maybnry on being pressed to visit Australia was rather impressed by the plans.
That the Labour Party is niuch more sympathetic to road transport than is the present administration.
That its now regretted by the Government that they purchased and shipped so much " safety-first?' foreign coal.
That Mr. LloydGeorge', after studying his attitude towards road transport, has decided to come down on Its side.
That official relaxation of certain bus restrictions proved a Won to shoppers on the days preceding the Christmas Holliday.
That the daily average loading per vehicle is only 25 ewt for all commercial goods motors alike in the U.K. and the U.S.A.
From the countryside that its residents and workers generally will welcome a lot more omnibus services of the Morris 14-seater type into and through its most truly rural areas.