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That slime and slide wait for every van.
That (the American) exchange is so wobbly.
That cotton waste is reprehensible—with cotton at 10d. a reel.
That England expeots that every Ford van will pay its 331 per cent. duty.
That "Stand and deliver!" is a silly thing to say to a driver hung up in traffic.
That there is far too much of such hanging up in City work at the present time.
That "over the top" is becoming a, phrase rather for " excursions" than " alarms."
That, as a general rule, nowadays, London pedestrians are to be seen gazing at posts.
Recently, of a runaway tram, and is convinced that the crime wave is stronger than we had suspected.
That " Vim " acts up well to his nom-de-plume, inasmuch that he clears up a variety of obscure points.
-4 That, so far, Government regulation of our rail
ways has resulted in huge financial loss, extortionate rates and miserable service.
That there are, notwithstanding, those among ua who cry aloud for Nationalization! Well, well From Emerson, that the one thing we seek with insatiable desire is to draw a new circle. Apparently we have succeeded this century.
From the provinces that, on a certain five miles stretch of road, a. mender is at work with great regularity, using his foot as a, "tampion" on patches 6 ins. by 3 ins, in extent, the "handful" of tarmac being merely thrown on without scarifying.
That it might seem as if the increased price of petrol and the threatened increases in motor taxation were a deliberate attempt to penalize motor transport, so that enlightened private enterprise may not compare too favourably with benighted railway inefficiency.
Of many people who havn't much U.S.E. for the U.S.A.
"Why not have an Old England Highway Weather Bureau?
• Of property distribution settlements in anticipation of a capital levy.
—0 Of pieces of swell long enough to emulate the Indian "rope trick."
That it's more comfortable to travel in an Overland than by the Undergroutid.
That a recent sky-high lca,d from High Wycombe looked like " cha(i)rs-eabank."
That it must be the " Extractor's "expression which secures all those " impressions." .
That steam wagons are noticeably predominant on main routes around Birmingham.
+hat inclusive patent fees are much too exclusive for private enterprise in this country.
Enquiries as to whether our tramway traffic block picture was reproduced from a photograph.
That highway robbery is being revived, with the slogan, "Your money and year livelihood!"
That the Birmingham and Midland Omnibus Co. now run.: a fleet of Tilling-Stevens between Coventry and Rugby.
That the tramcar is as unobstructive as it is unobtrusive, and that the fact of its being " especially constructed for stopping" must be obvious to themost casual observer.
That it would puzzle both philosopher and mathematician to find the circumference of the vicious circle, as, owing to the rising cost of ingredients, w has rno fixed value.
The call to "Get a, move on," for Germany is already offering lorries, tractors, agricultural machinery and cars to Poland and elsewhere, at 60 per cent. lower than anything we can do.