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That the new land liner is like a modern house.
That the kitchen, however, is bigger on the liner.
That, east or west, fair or wet, the coach is best. That the all-weather coach is best of all.
Of sleeper-coach stewards who steer and change gear.
That it is better to be early than tardy with tar spraying.
The Government being politely told to mind its own business.
That the increased cost of petrol is being used as an argument in favour of electric vehicles.
Re "Straying Animals on • the Highways," the ungallant remark, "Women are the worst ones."
That the Sentinel Waggon Works,, Ltd., claims the price of coal to be equivalent to petrol at 5d. per gallon.
That, when the railway and the coach go to the country, it is the .coach that gets the people's vote every time, with a big majority.
That concrete road surfacing has an immense attraction for the top-spinning fraternity and the fact is adding a new terror to driving.
Of a Carrimore for loads of zebras.
That tramway flangeshriek is a real noise.
More official condemnations of careless Walking. That Good Friday is sometimes the best Frigay.
That the disappearing tramcar will go on doing it. That the Wansford by-pass might well have been made wider. 0 That it is very difficult to give a correct answer to a dishonest question about freight rates.
That line contact of steel tyres had much to do with the pre-war premature wear of many roads.
That the L.M.S. Railway Co. is steadily developing its container combined road-and-rail-transport system.
That orders for new containers recently placed will bring the number owned by the company to over 1,300.
That puncture-sealing compounds for the pneumatic tyres of motor coaches are coming into prominence.
Of some who still contend that an ordinary solidrubber tyre is suSceptible to compression as well as distortion.
That practically everycommercial motor manufacturer of note is experimenting with the Bosch pump and his own concomitants.
That travelling showmen prefer F.W.D.s.
Lurid comments about carelessly used spotlights.
Of a sleeper coach which has seven headlamps.