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Dimmers praised and cursed alike.
That by bus to the box office is best.
That they're still on clover in America.
Of much money running over the bridges. That fares on top are not overhead charges.
That town planners hold the keys of the traffic problem.
Of some who don't know which are the "Home Counties."
That accidents don't just happen. There is always a cause.
That to remember means not to forget to be always careful.
That the six-wheeler can rush in where most heavies fear to tread.
That they make light of heavy land and don't boggle at bogs.
That maximum speed is not always what the speedometer says it is.
That More and more people realize that one way to get there is by spate.
That the time required across London by taxicab is, more than ever, a guess.
That a good slogan for a vacuum servo device might be, "Buy me and stop quickly."
Of those who advocate the endowment of 'a chair of motorology for all our universities.
Carburetters called instruments and devices—but other things when they contain water.
That few 200-mile drives can he completed without seeing several roadside smashes nowadays.
That Sussex roads, so dwellers in the county aver, show the greatest all-round measure of post-war depreciation.
That there may be a Liverpool Heavy Motor Trials (1898, 1899 and 1901) Anniversary Dinner each year in future in London.
Of an ancient " heavy " with a length of rope attached to its starting handle to enable a tug-of-war team to help the driver in cranking up. .
Of the weather gods assembling their choicest ingredients for a real. old English winter, which bears little or no resemblance to the unreal old Christmascard type.
. The suggestion, re a passenger-vote on bus types, that the tramways might learn some useful home truths it they collected the opinions of their users on the frequent blocks and breakdowns.
Somebody making the unpopular suggestion that the Chancellor of the Exchequer might follow the example of New South Wales and impose a id. tax on every newspaper and other publication. The song of the Boo in a Major key.
That traffic jam often furnishes the spiciest sauce.
That many who had horse sense have not motor sense.
That the floods washed the roads, but washing days were no fun.
Of those whose traffic sense seems to diminish as traffic increases.
Someone reminding the railways that all the world loves a low fare._ That the wise driver does not always wait for official lighting-up time.
Of two motor drivers drawn up for a friendly chat across a white line.
Of growing conviction that first cost is not so important as last maintenance.
That Canada has nut yet awakened to the advantages of the specially designed chassis.
That the 10,000th Vulcan chassis constructed since the Armistice left the Crossens works last week.
-That an order for 20 2-ton motor trucks has lately been given out by the Spanish military authorities.
That a Surrey motor lorry driver has been fined for using a spurious motor licence made of wall-paper.
Of a householder whose elation when his dealer sold him 15 cwt. of coal abated next day when the price dropped 10s. per ton.
Re the talk in Parliament of road etiquette and age tests for drivers, the question, "Would it be etiquette to test a lady driver's age?"
That a Californian concern operating a long-distance motorbus service has acquired an aeroplane to transport mechanics rapidly to the scene of any breakdown.
How a new van was recently delivered to a Sussex buyer bone dry of oil and with a large crack ii . one cylinder, whilst the driver let out that he had carried an overload for most of the journey from the works.
Re the "Third World M.T. Congress," the suggestion that the "Third M.T. World Congress" would be a less misleading title, since we know but the Old World, the New World, and the World to Come.