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Are easy to read but less easy to write.
That it may again be a case of "Steady, boys, steady."
Many teeth still grinding over tariff grounding.
At times, alas, when there's nothing good to tell.
That more coke sales are the key to more benzole.
That the future of conciete is more and more concrete.
Encouraging details of new motorbus routes projected.
Big wheel-bases grousing about small turningcircles.
That money cannot always be got for value these times.
That the brightening-up of evenings will even-up some earnings.
Of outing, routing, shouting, and touting at tramCar conclaves.
Not so frequently of late of infrequent loads for haulage vehicles.
That unlocated money is creeping into provincial motorbus finance.
Tales of rescues of broken-down motorbus companies.
Except from Lancashire, fewer complaints about police speed controls.
That some imports of benzole fail to comply with the N.B.A. quality specification.
That there's nothing just as good as motor-coaching if the weather's not just as bad.
Of stand perturbation at Barnsley where change of stand appears to be at a standstill.
That the Labour Party may demand more seats and larger motorbuses for country journeys.
lidan3r a hooter calling for the road without the driver behind getting the ear of the driver in front.
That there's nothing like houses as a safe investment, unless it's the means of transport to and from them.
Of an official movement on foot to require the equivalent, for individual public-service vehicles, of a Lloyd's survey for individual ships.
That the great highway (not motorway) projected from Liverpool to East Lancashire is far from being killed by either Manchester or railway influences against it Of " busquakes " in some cities.
That in Liverpool all roads lead to the docks. Of motor taxation, not of motor-tax cessation. That fuel suppliers are all there, not in the air. That the hoop season is in full swing—or bowl.
That, in poor districts, the " hoops " aare often old perambulator wheels.
That, in consequence, many a van driver is faced with a problem of wheels within wheels.
Of tricky driving as a• feature of St. Giles's Circus.
That pneumatics on motorbuses bring in the numismatics.
That too many letters are still lost in the post— and still more delayed.
That a petrol duty in relation to Imperial 'Preference is also a sharp sword.
That there's many a snip in motorbus competition between the cut and the lick.
That dry steam coal with about 11 per cent, of volatiles is beating anthracite.
Of more ill-timed efforts in Whitehall to stay the pumps that lay the golden eggs.
That, when everyone takes it, the shortest way may easily become the slowest.
That interlocking holdings involve awkward situations for some boards of directors. • So much of the gentleman who is out of bananas that one wishes he were out of date.
Of two months' hard labour for a man who sold a petrol " saver" which did not save.
That the dock-approaeh obstruction has led to serious abuses and much unprintable abuse.
That the action of the prominent motor spirit distributing concerns in removing signs which disfigure the countryside is commendable.
That the weather is proving the truth of that elegant proverb— If there's ice in November that'll hold a duck, There'll be nothing after but sludge and muck.