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it's rapid yet smooth acceleration that pleases. That energy on the road both counts and scores.
That to be left behind is the cut most unkind.
That brake improvements have not reached finality.
That only two electric trucks were shown at the Paris Commercial Motor Show.
That the steam vehicle was conspicuous by its absence.
That the Treasury is nervy as to petrol-tax That the atmosphere of the north is tending south.
That both Shraptiell-Smith and Sidney Gareke are feeling the pull of politics.
That it's time a regulation prohibited the fitting of bumpers extending .beyond the vehicle's overall width.
That no motoring organization can afford to reckon on the benevolent neutrality of the Royal Commission on Transport.
That not Belfast alone reckons the need of its tramway zone to extend 440 yards beyond the terminal points of the rails.
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Of December banking stringency asserting itself.
That ton-miles per gal/on must be watched.
That there's already a spread over of Xmas shopping.
That the Forth Bridge will bear no road child.
Of the need for spit and polish often blacked out.
That routine on a route comes after it's rooted.
Of fewer wee frees allowed in some motorbuses.
That 1 16. per h.p. is almost strength without weight.
That there's no old, old story yet of motor coaching.
That the Labour Party may officially espouse the cause of prohibition of alcoholic drink-s.
That a German motor tractor building concern has taken up the construction of "motorcycles.
That transport men can work in a circle without 'forming a ring or being in a pool.
'That the tax of 23s. 2d. per week is not helping steam to hold the fort or the horse in heavy city and dock work.
Of real, if secret and ,subdued, interest by several British manufacturers in Bosch pumps and correlated engine design.
Of those whose 1929 estimates af working casts repeat the per vehicle 1928 scales of taxation for those with pneumatic tyres instead of 80 per cent. only.
Other people's views during any cruise.
That a ton-mile lost is gone for ever.
That it pays to keep up the electrolyte level.
That forgetfulness never filled any pocket properly.