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Of go-ahead Nottingham. Of October, the gully-filler.
Of a Sheffield chefs Shefflex.
Of tram rails to be flung to the bus wolves.
That new forrnulEe for h.p. rating are pouring in.
That the motorbus has become the popular choice.
That steam-wagon drivers are more than stokers.
That petrol-wagon drivers are more than steersmen.
That experience should still, be preferred to novelty.
That tram-track abandonment may hit the Road Fund.
That road-making is acquiring power as an industry.
That some "One Hears " tear stupid pretensions into tatters.
That there were " pirate" hackney coaches in London in 1644.
That we shall see very few, if any, double-deck streets this decade.
That a motorbus is licensed to one only as the servant of the many.
That motorbuses resemble proverbs in that both are adopted by the people.
That rubber surfacing for highways is neither done with nor yet done as it will be.
That the sayings of old wives by their firesides are altogether favourable to motorbuses.
That motorbus or no motorbus is now largely the determining factor in land development.
That there will be advertisements on the backs of all 1925 licences for all classes of motor vehicle.
---0 That. the epidemic of motor-taxation committees is not stayed, but that implements of trade are safe.
That not all motorbus passengers may have much, but that they certainly all want all they can get, for a penny or two. • More kind remarks than aforetime in reference to the bigger motorbus owners who do the thing properly and well.
That too many people claim to express sensible opinions without possessing adequate knowledge of their professed subjects.
Of numerous people still chewing over Sir. Lynden Macassey's suggestions for others, and not vehicleowners alone, to make specific payments towards the improvement of highways and road communications. That one man's price is 'another man's poison. That it all depends.
That transition is becoming everyone's portion: " Uneasy rides the tread that leaves the crown.".
That promises, like Governments, are made to be broken.
Of more motorbus storms ending tramcar tranquillity.
That faulty ignition causes other gaps and interruptions.
That it isn't necessarily the stroke that makes the engine purr.
Of the first fires of winter superseding the last rose oi summer.
That the conveying of raw material is against the appearance of finish.
"The Skotch " commenting on the infinite variety of haulage problems.
That advocates of the open back door for the motorbus are growing more numerous.
That whilst verbal transmission may be one form of immortality it never drove a road motor.
Of those who resent our referring to Thursday, November 6th, as " the morning after the night before."
That there's been a right-about turn about the Rye-1.Vinchelsea road scandal, thanks to Sir Henry Maybury.
That the American extravagance of utterance is more solidly reflected in the numerical strength of their motor outputs.
Someone asking if many of the men employed on road-mending are Scots, because they seem such adepts at making porridge.
That Shrapnell-Smith is also descended on his mother's side from General Wade, the road pioneer of the early years of the eighteenth century.
Thal it would have been awkward for the organizers of the C.3..T.T.3.A. coming-of-age banquet on the ath prox. if the General Election had been fixed for that Wednesday instead of the one before.