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That safeguard is as safeguard does.
Compulsory third-party insurance nearing. That self-propulsion yields self-satisfaction. That bus-running never was a round of pleasure.
• • That second reading calling for second thoughts. Of railway good intentions rather wearisomely.
--" Can. the Minister of Transport Prevent rate
cutting? " • That it isn't often one gets the chance to grumble at trebruary dust.
• That many drivers are making the most of their rare oppOrtunity.
That 91 degrees isn't a bad Kin temperature for February in .Sussex.
That the usual body-push for the Easter holidays is VOW well on the move.
That the all-day-long motorbus servic.=:, impinges on more and more responsive interests.
That effective co-ordination between road and rail may be not too beneficial to new chassis sales.
That the main-line railways did well for themselves by squaring London's inner transport circle.
That the Chancellor's .intended rating rearrangements may prove to be serious in their reactions on road transport.
The suggestion that city stree-ts. of the future will sport such notices as "Legs not admitted" or "Legs must keep to the side-walks and cross by the subways,"
That we thought (or hoped) that this kind of wag died with Victorian days.
With pleasure that the railways, out of sheer philanthropy, wish to save the public the expense of road upkeep by drawing the traffic to their rails !
That, if " foolish duplication of services has led to the increasing depletion of railway revenue," why embark on still more foolish triplication?
That returns by bus usually enlarge 'bus-returns.
That town, bus-services merit closer attention.
More fraternal greetings between fours and sixes. That all European successes do not repeat in England.
Still of Southern Railway trains that take the wrong turning.
Of a Paris taxi that is two cabs in one-----and one of . them is for the driver.
Of bussing, coaching and Bussing-coaching in Germany, That in the ease of maintenance costs the designer's eye tnay save, the owner's sigh..
That if the British I.C.E. visits New York in August it may be glad of itself.
That each £1,000 goes less far and yet much farther in the motorbus world than it did.
That it seems cheaper to kill pedestrians than to provide footpaths to country reads.
That " S.T.R." advises every haulier to charge as much as other hauliers will let him charge.
That a step-up in bus design is the more pronounced when there is no step-up from platform to interior.
That the best way to buck up many of the smaller trainways is to take them up in favour of motorbuses.
That the Vulcan " free-gear" bus is creating much interest .amongst prospective buyers beyond the Tweed.
That there's very little benzole or petrol in any -oils which are yielded by low-temperature carbonization of coal.
A dear old lady complaining that 'there are no dust baths for the poor Nate sparrows -on these iniquitous tarred 'roads."
The last of Matlock's cable trams (recently sold for 15 apiece), but will hear its new buses still less en route.
That certain owner-drivers would attract much more business if they would . poliSh up their printed memos and letter headings.
That the RPO artist is a student of psychology, since he has shown all the passengers (except one man). in the coach turning their backs on the ancient castle in order to face the photographer.
That the best choosing often follows much chewing.
That distinction for one need not connote extinction for another.