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That the race is not to the fleet.
Of glaring offences by headlights.
That the Tilling-Stevens is not an agrimotor.
" If I only pneu I "—as the solid said to the wheel. That E.P.D. may yet be T 0.T. (tax on turnover).
That 'tis a wily tooth that can get out of its own mesh.
That all roads lead to Olympia—except Oxford Street.
That certain strikes have had a chilling effect upon cast-iron.
Continuously, nowadays, of some_ fresh search for a "yield-point."
That Birmingham's next "forward" movement is to run taxi-sidecars.
That the .most vicious of circles can be readily squared with phi.
That many -coach owners think there should be nothing pneu under the sun.
That the old straw-floored 'horse-bus may be proud of his grand-children.
Sellers of pneumatics protesting that nothing can take the wind out of their. sales.
That owners may yet have to handle grease guns in secret, lest a tax be imposed on 'their use.
Tilat one char-a, does not make a summer, though good springs may be the making of -a -char-it.
That putting a king-pin on a (motor) road-sweeper cannot possibly upset the tenets of democracy That it is risky enough to overload road springs, but to snub them as well is asking for a reprisal.
That a " wet-bob " would be high and mighty dry, running that hefty Straker-Squire gully washer.
The suggestion that motor coaches should be fitted with tipping bodies to enable harassed drivers to get rid of unruly parties.
That it would be safer for road users of every type_ if pedestrians were obliged to obey the left-keeping rule on country roads where there is no side-walk.
That the Bus-Bus activity in Coventry, to which we recently referred, has.resulted in the Maudslay Co. receiving the O.K. index nfark for four single-deckers.
Of a tractor harvest hymn—" We plough the fields and scatter, the nuts upon the land "--and that most tractor troubles are due to the fact that, as Kipling used to say, "They've left a lot of -little things behind them."
That, to see a tractor driver searching a, ploughed field for somethingthat has come unstuck is a "harrowing spectacle." Of paraphernalia for paraffin.
That hibernation won't do for man.
Though it may (in another sense) "do for" industry. Of the need of more pep in publicity. Of a bad time coming, unless all buckle to.
That "the more we make, the less we take." That there is no scarcity of coppers at Kingston.
That left-hand steerers are bowing to the inevitable: Of E.P.D., that it Everywhere Precipitates Disaster.
That the penny may again be the popular spending unit.
Penny Wise; three-ha'penee,foolish.
That those who put lubrication first find their vehicles last.
That much approval of the new " undertype" was "overheard."
That there is still too rauth "control" in the Governmental machine.
That the cheapest, market is best, providing your rival does not get control.
That the purchasers of ehars-h-bancs de luxe should be in lux way next season.
That it is good for us alPthat prices should fall— meaning, goods for us all.
That tipping gear design is becoming almost a special branch of industry.
That the world is full of hydrocarbons, all of which are potential power producer.
Of ale,ohol from sugar, sugar from beetroot; beet route for the beaten track.
That paper money means paper profits—not worth the taper they are written on.
That the enterprise of a maker is demonstrated more by design than" accidentals."
Of subways for motors, but that decent highways would not be a, bad idea to start with.
That the splashguard merchant is endeavouring to float his shield and buckler once more.
That the primary difference between an engine and a paraffin carburetter is that the one is judged by its torque and the other by its smelt.
That the drivers for the Karrier automatic road machinateed not necessarily be of Pussyfoot persuasion, even though they are, for the time being, on a. water cart de luxe.