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Not all the aces are against us.
Of new outbreaks of pneumatic fervour.
That taking colliers to work is' a paying job. That sales opportunities are rapidly increasing. That getting out of Liverpool will soon be easier. That Wandsworth may want another gully emptier.
That licensing authorities should be unbiased parties. 0 That individual restriction will never solve traffic problems. 0 That British vehicle pushers 'should get busy among the Pashas.
That British shores should not form the designer's mental horizon.
That some villages want traffic, but traffic does not often want villages.'
That 'motorbus season tickets are gaining in popularity in the provinces.
The hope expressed that such tickets may eventually be issued under certain conditions in London.
That Churchill's way round was accepted by the Cabinet as a square way.
That some modern coaches need a deal of catching uphill, even by large cars.
That hops and sheep -form the alternative loads of a Sussex transport company.
That the 1026 Budget has aroused more comment than has been made for years.
Of some owners up in the air over the Budget propostrls and of others busy in the see-about-it.
Of the Road Vehicles Bill being' the subject of the old, old game, "This year, next year, sometime, never."
That if and when the petrol tax comes again, Winston's idea is a flat Si]. a gallon plus a yearly licence fee. 0 That the new tax scale (as from January 1st next) will enforce upon owners eitry possible fuel and other running economy.
• That that which was agreed to be outside the scope of the " Safeguarding " rules was found to be amenable to treatment by the McKenna process.
That the C.M.U.A. general secretary, (50, Pall Mall, S.W.1) will be pleased to hear from owners of steam wagons or tractors whose drivers have any difficulty at any time in securing good supplies of boiler feedwater while on a journey. 'Tis the unexpected that happens, as of yore.
That low-loaders expedite the "earthing" of a load.
Country drivers suffering from an epidemic of fry in-the-eye. )0 That the ear people are caught up in the rebound OT the A.A. net.
That the motor coach more than held its own on " Coop " day.
Of American bus makers who are doing a big business overseas.
That Bristol failed to make drivers stop for its stationary trams.
That £7,000,000 of the Road Fund " surplus " is to take the wrong road.
That " surphis " is surely a misnomer.
That in the evolution Of. Time the revolution of tramcar wheels will cease: That the Thames •Bridges controversy appears to be like the water under them.
That the Guildford and Dudley Corporations believe in supporting local ratepayers.
That Guildford has ordered a Dennis and Dudley a Bean.
The one-way traffic is disconcerting to the type of pedestrian who crosses the road by instinct.
That you may soon be able to get a double Scotch on a motor coach without a drink licence.
The hope that the go-ahead -Mustapha Kemal will let roads, not grass, grow under his feet in Turkey.
That railway efforts to checkmate road transport by pressing for excessive taxation are, if .a little damped, by no means dropped.
That in the absence of special rebates in respect of purely local work the use of heavy motors for town haulage may largely cease in favour of tax-free horses.
That episode during the recent conflagration at Cobham Park prompt the question—" Should country fire-fighting appliances be mounted on creeper-track chassis?"
That only Shrapnell-Smith—during his address in the G. W. Railway Board Room at Paddington, on January 7th last—forecast the division of car taxation as now adopted by the Chancellor.
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• What is now referred to openly by writers on busbody design as leg room would in grandma's day have been delicately known as limb space.