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That 'flue is fleeing.
Of more anti-municipal growths.
Of big orders for Sentinel rail-cars. Of good and bad transmission brakes.
That there's to be no mincing 'natters now.
That mirrors are to be a compulsory fitting.
Of less and less money ne▪ eded for tyre upkeep. That predestination doesn▪ 't count on the road.
Of trailer novitiates not yet completely served.
Of March 25th as the motor coach Saint's Day.
That Winston is suffering from Road Fund misgivings.
Of a long bus well fitted as the ideal for country districts.
Gyratory traffic described as a means of saving time by passing it. 0 That the more they are together the unhappier can motorbuses be.
Of carriers following the cup-tie matches with an eye to business.
That a business can be no better than the men who direct and control it..
That brake drums on rear wheels are to be allowed to have two working faces.
That rubber will store 50 times as much energy as a piece of steel of equal size.
That they fear, worse than ever, traffic congestion at Easter on the main Preston-Blackburn road.
I That, according to Sir John Cadman, only 2-per cent. Of the world's oil supplies come from within the empire.
That, inclusive of home-distilled supplies, no fewer than 600,000,000 gallons of petrol is the estimated U.K. consumption for 1927.
That the copies of The Commercial Motor which go to the Dominions and Colonies circulate from hand to hand until, as one correspondent tells us, the covers hre worn right through!
That the delegation which has gone overseas from the British motor industry will investigate, explore, examine and learn, and that the export trade in motors Will develop accordingly. Too often the old song, "It ain't gonna rain no less."
That there's nothing more annoying than a slow puncture.
From many readers overseas, and welcomes their communications.
A rumour that all Birmingham's buses are to become pneumatic-tyred.
Of rises, rises everywhere in the market prices of good motorbus shares.
That coaching offers best prospects for the ownerdriver-one-vehicle concern.
Of motor coach bodies which have hibernated beginning to sit up and take chassis.
That we can win the Dominion markets with price and quality if we only get down to it.
That buses which run ahead of scheduled time cause as much strong language as those that run late.
• That the time has come for proprietors to guard their rural routes jealously but with a broad mind.
That horse transport can put money. into the motor maker's pocket—when the horses are thoroughbreds.
Discussions in Parliament concerning the right to 'smoke as applied to steam wagons and bus passengers.
Of great interest displayed in this country in connection with the use of new materials for worm gearing.
The question : " Would a London taxicab break the spirit of a Paris taxi driver, or would he break it first?"
Someone saying that municipalities will keep on grabbing until private concerns do more early morning work.
Someone asking if Canada's anti-freezing mixture, made with honey, is exclusively used for honeycomb • radiators, and if there's any danger of getting a bee in the bonnet.