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ONE HEARS

That a good clutch never grabs.

Of thousands still feeling Olympia-ed.

That silencer repairs are better than fines.

-That the best outlook very often is to look out.

Of great road-mending preparations afoot in sussex.

That vehicles Carry the name as well as merchandise.

That Birmingham has 126 more hackneys this year than last.

That adding two jrlinders to a four does not make a good six.

That Sir Robert HOTTle is the latest disciple of commercial motoring.

Someone lamenting—" Coal rationed, coke rationed ; they'll ration oil and petrol next."

That " S.T.R." smiled when reading in a letter "the lorry is a 4-tonner and the load 5 tons."

That the par headed, "A useful drill for garages," had nothing to do with physical Jerks for employees.

That one of the most popular attractions outside a bus office is a contour model of the surrounding country.

That if you keep strict accounts your business is More likely to keep you, and if it doesn't you can find the reason why.

That some American motor traders are disposing of used motor oil to farmers as "a germ-chaser in barns and poultry houses."

The pessimistic assertion that the efficient anti-splash device and the secret of perpetual motion will be discovered on the same day.

That a New Zealand motor haulage contractor was recently called upon to convey 2,000 head of sheep from one part of the country to another.

That only two of the animals were injured.

That the cost of transport amounted to only f50, as against about a5o by rail.

That a programme of united action may one day be found other than the Greek Kalends upon which all motor organizations will he able to take really unified and united action.

That the joys of the old brigade will be much talked about this (Tiiesiday) evening at the R.A.C. Founder Members' dinner, London, when Mr. E. M. C. Instone is to be in the chair.

Of the growing conviction that, in the matter of licensing, municipal authorities are only time-wasting and prejudiced middlemen between the Ministry of Transport and those who run public-service vehicles. Both what's said and what's thought.

That the chance taker is the accident maker.

That good workmanship is always worth its price.

Much twaddle about traffic from those who never drive.

Of the roadside-watering problem becoming a hotter one this winter.

That there's got to be more money put into bridges the country over. 0 That the force of a road shock increases as the square of the speed 0 That inside motor-taxation policy runs much deeper than any still waters.

That Lord Lee intends to get off. the Thames bridges before midnight on Christmas Eve.

Of too many tramways that are like Charley's Aunt, but have not her excuse for existence.

That long-distance motor drivers quickly learn where to pull up for the best and cheapest snap.

Of no bridge on a classified road barred to twotonners, and of very few on unclassified roads.

That to be popular and successful as an agent in the Dominions one must be a man of parts—especially spare parts.

That it is only the very stick-in-the-nmd rural district council nowadays that does not possess a motor mower for its local sports ground.

From Cardiff, that the C.M.U.A. water-supply tokens are soon to be made the official system there for steamwagon drivers and owners.

The suggestion that if all London motorbuses were six-wheelers they needn't make these time-wasting detours when the roads are up.

That the U.S. Bureau of Standards, after a series of tests of so-called "fuel dopes," has reported that the majority of such preparations are worthless.

Of a long-drawn-out tussle in respect of yet another motor-manufacturing reconstruction` scheme as to whether the ordinary or the preference shareholders are to get the better of it.