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That this exhaust-fume business is raising a bit of a stink.
Little about windscreen-washers for commercial vehicles.
That deep windscreens can cause deep gloom when dirty.
That Italy produced 2,286 buses, 21,842 lorries and 7,319 vans in 1953.
That drivers of oil-engined vehicles should always respect their governors.
That London's trolleybuses will soon be accelerating out of the transport picture.
"Steps against unpaid fares?" Well, the fact that the conductor is up the steps is often against paid ones.
Of a suggestion that the tobacco chiefs are camouflaging their products with motor-vehicle exhaust fumes.
That if buses become much lighter, the flying bus will soon become a more likely possibility than the flying pig.
That the inhabitants of Wales who "thought they saw a tiger "in the mountains recently, were certainly not mistaken.
The query—" Were L. J. Cotton and his crew out on safari." That no vehicle is truly dependable unless it is backed by an efficient spares service.
That judging from recent comments there's nothing of the old " Ark " about the buses in Newark.
Concerning no parking near zebra crossings, a reader saying that no parking within a specified distance of level crossings would save a lot of strong language and delay.
That one does not always realize, as the gates re-open, that a vehicle at the head of the queue may have nobody at the wheel.