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That showmen are big buyers of second-hand vehicles.
Of prodigious feats by showmen's motors which were purchased at extraordinarily low cost.
That showmen spread their payments for certain road-transport plant over unusually long periods.
That road motors are playing an important part in health-propaganda schemes.
From an Argentine municipal bus specification : "There shall be ventilation windows for the feet of the driver."
That our "Transit Insurance Notes" have put hauliers wise to some important pitfalls of goodstransport insurance, That some new bus bodies make middle-aged ones seem prehistoric.
That many of the travelling public have no recollection of sitting "all in a row" inside a' bus.
That cross seats make travellers better tempered. That coach comfort now rises triumphant above *eather vagaries.
That, when overloading is unlawful, everything comes to him who weights.
That this year would take first prize in a competition for unseasonable seasons, Of a. wag inquiring whether they use double nuts on vehicles in the Philippines.
That concrete roads are like motor regulations— it isn't easy to pick up what has been laid down.
That, although it may sound rather strange when one says it, in many a " gas-proof " room the sealing is the flaw.
Of Mr. Burgin's accessibility being praised and appreciated.
That, these days, the alternative-fuels problem is much in the limelight.
That certain C ommercialvehicle makers had a hand in " Thunderbolt's " land-speed record.