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Frequently from overseas. Engines knocking. which shouldn't.
Over and above the general information.
• That. our national transit is in transition. Of an /important brake-lining change-over.
That an offensive usually forces a defensive.
With reserve, that Irish roads are now better. Polite corrections Applied to rude directions. That the short-stroke engine makers are in league.
That 'Wembley has in part developed into a sales fair.
That August holds in its folds many dividend moulds.
That Newlands Corner is no longer select or secluded..
Encouraging reports about both lighter and heavier prospects.
That there are more friends of motorbuses than of motorcars.
That there are neither taverns nor inns on the new motor roads.
That no man can farm properly nowadays without at least one motor.
That the first edition of the Taxation Report was exhausted within three days.
That every inch of length should be allowed to the motorbus on the improved highways for which it so largely pays.
That nobody seems to have investigated the number of the parishes in which railway companies pay no local rates, That the petrol tax is dead as mutton, and that no resolution of the House of Commons can alter that common-sense view.
That user of roads by the public which is served is clesely akin to the primary user by those who carry it and for it.
Pertinent inquiries concerning the proportion of road costs due to widenings and straightenings to permit high speeds for cars.
That plans for British participation in the International Road Congress at Rome in 1926 are being Presseyed into shape already.
No doubts expressed as to the issue, but only as to the length of the contest, that the Treasury (R.A.C.) rating should be factorized for purposes of taxation. Of dormy sheds as money-savers. Advice more often than one takes it.
That not all references show preferences.
That the A.A. is to put out some of its hoard.
That fog will remain the motorist's last enemy.
That earlier motorbuses are badly needed on most routes.
That bridge widenings will accompany many rebuildings.
Of too many eases where the passenger is the shock absorber.
There are fewer friends of the tramcar than there were even: a year ago.
That it's not always cheering to look ahead, although always wise to try.
That the bus-length cut is-tO be 26 ft., after all over all, for all except London.
That dogs and ducks get no scarcer despite the tolls taken of them on the road.
That the dweller in a side road has apparently no legal right ever to drive out of it.
There should be many more Royal Mail letterboxes built into country motorbuses.
• Of an ingenious strap-hanger combining an advertisement, and that there's revenue in it.
That Judge Rucgg and the "Safety First?" Council seem to hold diametrically opposite views on the rights of main-road traffic.
That its rights require to be quite clearly defined.
That the " push " cyclist should also give ear to the counsel of the council.
That an invitation visit to the L.G.O.C. repair works at Chiswick will be the C.M.U.A. coming-ofage function on the day after the dinner in November.
That not a few motorbus conductors on country routes carry no time-tables and are in consequence unable to give useful answers as to connections or return journeys.