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That next to nothing is being said about legal avoidance of the petrol tax.
That the platforms for this year's General Election will neither be dressed nor set for another 44 months.
That amongst the few objections to four-berth sleepers by rail or road is the snoring of many who use them.
A driver, hung up at a level-crossing, complaining that "these goods trains oughter be took up fer loitering."
That the railway companies expected more general publicity for their recent evidence, and are more than a little disappointed about it.
That December's travelling takings were more down than up, and very largely by reason of uncertainties ascribable to the King's illness. .
That the Holborn gas-mains explosion is being made tile basis of a call for the prohibition of the use of solid tyres on buses and lorries in the London area.
That such a prohibition would be almost impossible to obey because certain vehicles must continue to run on solids for a long time to come.
Of .warnings long in advance to selected guests for the next annual dinner of the Institute of Transport, when H.R.H. the Prince. of Wales is expected to be present.
How one district of a small Sussex town needs a new drainage system to prevent sewage from flooding the streets in wet weather, but new drainage would necessitate the remaking of *a long stretch of road and the council is fundless—so the flooding goes on.
That, meanwhile, the "road" fund accumulates to be a temptation to Chancellors of the Exchequer.
That in a motorbus is the seat of money's worth.
Of fog and flood triumphant in some districts.
'That there will soon be many more sleepers by road. . Of few who want to damn the flowing tide of road transport.
That the 1929 Commercial Motor Show at Olympia will mark the inauguration of much new public support.
That the Saurer Co., in addition to producing buses and coaches, is a large manufacturer of textile machinery.
That Colonel P. J. Smith's producer-gas set now moves the load well although it has not a single moving part of its own.
That a Loughboro' by-law stipulates that buses of a certain seating capacity shall be drawn by no fewer than four horses.
That there's a move on foot to secure more representation for the public as such on the London and Horne Counties Traffic Advisory Committee.
That the best way to obviate the necessity for covering in ditches to accommodate pedestrians .while motorists pass by, is to build side-walks.
That a new and powerful explosive to do all mining and other blasting, also to do all the quieter work Of black powder has been discovered and proved. 0 That its combined cheapness and effectiveness will greatly facilitate road construction in all rocky countries.
That the council of a small town has spent so much on a stretch of concrete road that it has no money left to -remake the side-walks dug up in the course of operations.
That residents complain that they cannot walk on pavements like a shingly beach plus mud. .
That there's no best name on a motorbus.
That the Royal Commission is doing, its best to hustle.
That it's "more light less speed" in foggy weather. •