ONE HEARS
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• Of towing and healing.
Of Mayblossom and Irlaybury.
Of muddledmeans and model muddles.
Some talk of planting route-posts in big towns.
That this is an age of chemistry in commerce, therefore, of agents and reagents.
Of spirited replies from petrol and ready retorts of coke.
That reversing is an art, shared by drivers and dancers.
Good opinions of the C.M.U.A. from all the drivers.
Of farmers asking for speedy methods to substitute spuds for [tyres.
That the lawyers looked on the lorries from a new angle on Saturday.
That as a field is a croft the " Thornys " felt at home at the C.M.U.A. Parade.
That Capt. Bristow possesses that invaluable attribute of organizing ability—imperturbability.
Of Piekfords as patterns of transport evolution— from pack-horses to petrol-propelled pantechnicons.
Of Mrs. Malaprop speaking of a friend's sudden seizure as " she was struck by a low motor taxi, poor dear."
That the lion and the lamb (the lorry and the steam wagon) lay peacefully side by side in the fields of Lincoln's Inn.
That if Westminster ministered to transport as transport ministers to Westminster there would be no cause for complaint " Farewell! " To Shell From Samuel.
That politicians still seem to be at sea, on their Irish policy and, in seeking terra firma, have only established terror firmer.
Of the paraphrasing of Kipling to "The dusty driver on dickey, The muddied police at point."
That as ill-conditioned buses are being sent 'to Chiswick, to be reconditioned, there may have been some point about the old " gag " of sending decayed vegetables to Turnham Green. That Sir Marcus has come out of his Shell.
The foundrymen's chorus:: "In the loaming."
From the crank: "I'm too tight to move."
And from the piston : " I wish I could reciprocate." "Fine day ! "as the magistrate said to the scorcher.
Misguided Katie's wail: "Off the road to Hampton."
The travelling tradesman's honk ! honk! shop ahoy!
Coaching tourists asking:—" Will Pickfords cross the Alps?"
That a prolific allotment is a well-filled 82 seater out and away.
No poignant grief because Eric's little traffic Bill has been run over.
That Mitcham can match 'em and also knock twopence off the gallon.
That L.G.O.C. ways at Chiswick are: -• In and out, but not round about."
That the Potteries residents consider their new bus service a "stone doddle."
With satisfaction the gradual reversal of "Most for oneself, what's left for the State."
In universal monotone :—" Will you won't you won't you will you will you won't you buy? "
" Up from Somerset "—and elsewhere, that the Fro-me band is of itself an excellent vanguard.
[And " lorryguard," too, for that matter.—En.
C.M.] (Concerning "Ford Van Pointers" student "Worried Driver"): that the " Magets " of the flywheel naturally upset the " buzz in the box."