ONE HEARS
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Echoes of Xmas cheer. Few cheers for 1924.
That many would have leaped it.
That nothing has no smell.
Of more trainless intentions.
That pluck still outpoints luck.
That not all is minced that's pied.
That not all is seen that's spotted.
Of less interest but more dividends.
That tramcar men still outpour woes.
That all is not steel that might be.
Of things one does not wish to see. That roads in France do not advance.
Of grown and groaning Christirias traffic.
Of efforts to work up a certain dead set.
That the sun has taken a retiring pension.
That imagination may produce realization. That bus-smiles count as much as bus-miles. Of inner New York absolutely chock-a-block.
That good roads should make Scotland for ever.
Of weighty and speedy yet long debates in store.
Motor horns in Paris all day and ad infinitum.
That power alcohol's way will be the mixture way.
That it's not all honey even where there is money. Of Londori traffic suffering from auto intoxication. There's more in the pound sterling than round it.
" Noisy London, noiSier Paris, noisiest New York."
That the Road Fund will rake in Z18,260,000 durifig 1923.
That it's time domestic coke was made in coke ovens..
That the next 160 want to rank with R.A.C. founders now nearly 'down to 100.
That it takes a New Zealander who admires the motorbus business to master it quickly.
That it may next year have to be the case in motorbus working that " your fares will cost you More."
That dry peat fuel is now successfully obtained by adding more water to wet peat before subjecting it pressure.
That The Commercial Motor was 'quoted in p,iinost every London newspaper in connection with its article on. upper-deck saloons to buses.
That dazzle must go.
-0'-That not all is dead that's dyed.
That a motorized stable is made more stable.
That it's often cheaper to travel than to stay.
That it takes a wise man to miss London's fogs.
That there are some good road surfaces in Sussex.
That there are also some bad ones.
Of a jamming game for London's Traffic Committee.
That we wish you, and give you, many happy " One Hears."
That life's all ups anddowns—especially if you are a bus conductor.
That, nevertheless, the L.G.O.O. has no intention of fitting escalators to the new upper-deck saloons of its buses.
That a garage that shuts up at 6 p.m. isn't giving very active service.
That roads and pavements were never so narrow as at Christmastide.
The hope that we may see our shadows more often during the days of 1925.
The motor van's New Year resolution : Never to be weary with whe-el doings.
That only the most hardened optimist could see the bright sith of summer 1924.
0 Of more ridges across "--main roads where the water
has been laid on to new buildings.
That the levelling of them seems to be nobody's business.
That it certainly isn'tthe van driver's pleasure.
That Mr. A. D. Paterson is back from New Zealand, having travelled 32,000 miles in -423 days.
That not every motor mechanic understands the works of a petrol lamp, but most, of them think they do.
Anxious discussion as to whether the Road Fund's resources are to be depleted by Thames tunnel projects.
The definite assertion that the proceeds of motor taxation were never intended for tunnel building, but for road improvements.
Of considerable enterprise in the United States in the design and production of six-wheeled chassis and six-wheeled trailers,