One Hears
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Few maligning streamlining.
Of Whitehall Gardens going gay.
"Where's that road-transport propaganda?"
That Combe Martin's fire-engine has been destroyed by fire!
That to the taxi cabby the ideal forecast is : " Set fare. No change."
That it isn't only at Christmas that the railways exhibit that hamper spirit.
Someone asking if the M.T. Association is so named because it mothers trade.
That it is amazing what a multiplicity of uses the farmer can find for a small trailer.
That cleanliness may be good publicity, but nothing " shouts" like a badly kept vehicle.
Of a foreigner expressing .surprise at the difference there is between "holding up" and "upholding."
That the railways began to resent road-transport enterprise partly because it emphasized their own lack of it. Of the sobering effect of appeal fees.
That appellants still have a lot to learn.
Of too much bad advice given with good intent. Of erroneons ideas about new evidence on appeal.
That, in road-transport, appeals for sympathy fall on stony ground.
That high positions at the Ministry are not all beer and skittles—or beacons!
That our article, "Approximate justice," has struck home in some quarters.
That one would hardly suspect the Ministry of Transport of breeding leading humorists.
Of a call for an Old Ministry tie, That taxicab drivers should learn to recognize the high priests of 7, Whitehall Gardens.
That few persons realize fully the influence of the legal profession on the road-transport industry.
The question : Does the clerk to the Appeal Tribunal require an A licence to administer the oath?