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A lot of strange things in service stations. That tramlines can be useful—in a fog. That grease guns should be fired regularly.
That Argentine railways also feel the pinch.
That farmers also object to financial wangling.
Lurid comments from all-night drivers about fog and Ice.
That classical names for chassis need careful selec tion. 0 That engines object tool! out of drums with dirty tops. 0 ' Thdt it's often wiser to c'ondemn oneself than one's That now is the winter c)f numerous bus-owners' discontent.
Of no promise yet for legal progress concerning six wheelers. 0 That British motorcycle exports are 155 times the value of imports. 0 Of scenes that are quite the brightest in the history of the Treasury.
Of more than one saxpence going bang on Beardmores in Edinburgh.
That being out in the morning early might pay more bus owners than do it.
Rumours of a luxury tax, but little hope of lighter burdens for commercials. _ That everybody wants to fleece motorists by taxes or tricks.
That the man who knocks a hole in an oil filter deserves what it costs him.
Of a down-down tendency in receipts per bus-mile since the beginning of October.
That .sitting tight is the equivalent of a recoveryproducer for all motorbus owners.
That everybody is now talking glibly of the comparatively early arrival of the Road Fund at the revenue stage of 25 millions a year.
That it's disconcerting to' find an absence of grip on road matters generally in the Cabinet and ar,pity. Col. Ashley has not a seat there: That the case for the commercial motor as an implement of trade has yet to be brought home -adequately-to most members of Parliament. _ That the exhaust from any direct-coupled explosion engine run for lighting during hours of darkness is useful to warm any garage near to it.
That the railway companies have deferred their hopes and intentions concerning the upsetting of existing road-transport interests to the 1926 Session of Parliament. Of toy motor horns in crackers.
Of fuel merits found in cleaning oil.
Of tons of money for more tons of road materials. That pretended motoring union is merely weakness.
That America's dislike of the raw-rubber position will not cure it.
That higher speed is not all child's-play in a motorbus service.
That Sir Henry Maybury is at present more saddled than in the saddle.
That even a foggy notion of where one is may have its value on some of the foggiest nights.
That motor coach bodies should appear to live to seat, even although, in reality, they seat to live.
That the momentum, or servo-operated braking systems, give the transmission set quite a new dignity.
That once Christmas shopping is over, London publicpassenger traffic goes in for a spell of the Doldrums.
• 0 That Shrapnell's decision not to go to America next month is welcome news to all in Britain who know his value as a tax-fighter.
That no two Irishmen ever yet reconciled themselves to act for long together as joint secretaries for any association or committee.
That the Irish Free State presents to-day the spectacle of the biggest undeveloped area near England ripe for sound transport exploitation.
That whilst bump-for-bump agreements exist between certain leading motor-insurance companies, there's not yet any eye-for-eye scheme in force.
That loose nuts at the hub of a modern removable steel wheel may cause as much creaking as loose spokes did in the days of the old artillery type.
That the next touch-bottom of French paper currency will be reached about the end of February at exchange rates between two centuries to the £ and two cents to the franc. 0 That the Road Fund file in the hands of the Prime Minister's principal private secretary, Col. Sir Ronald Waterhouse, isalready quite out of bounds and even beyond belief.
HERE'S ONE— The coach was labouring on the hill and the passenger next the driver, said : " She's making a lot of noise, isn't she " To this the driver aemurred, but on the steep bit near the top "the row could not be ignored. "It's these new pneumatic tyres we've got on,2,' said the driver.
"Well, I've never known pneumatics to kick up a fuss like that," remarked the passenger.
"I mean, sir, if we hadn't got these tyres you wouldn't hear the old engine!"