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There's plenty of room for a boom.
That interest in the future is universal.
Final farewells to the petrol-tax schemes. That business must be followed or be lost.
That he who follows and never catches has lost his bit and met his matches.
People asking what the Yorkshire's load was.
That it's better to travel front axle first as a rule.
Of cords, accords, discords, broken chords, and records.
That the non-slip merchants are just longing for more snow.
Of a complete stir-up that had nothing to do with plum puddings.
That tariffs -and taxation may hereafter intrigue us to the end of Time.
That track-mileage of electric tramcars has passed its zenith for Great Britain, That the Garner busvan is proving yet another case of what being in the van can be.
That it's nicer to be in the van than in the cart, and in the swiin than in the soup.
That in the carburetter world one only lives by a combination of choking and throttling.
That more frequently change is asked than was the case a year ago when paying taxi-drivers.
That meetings at the cross-roads now arise chiefly through people waiting to travel by motorbus.
That the last screw or nut is even more important than the last word—and sometimes the cause of it.
That no great call •for expert witnesses has been observed since before the war, but that one is coming.
That on more than one tramcar track now ripe for abandonment or forfeiture every wheel's a squeaker.
That there's still more than enough profit in and out of petrol for prices to go lower again if they're let.
fhat leaders are those who best express what the mass of followers are, on hearing the facts, willing to adopt.
That there may be a closer approach to a united motordom during the next few weeks than has ever before been achieved.
That W. B. Cownie continues executive over motorbus expansion, with Exeter as a chief centre, Torquay as another, and Truro recently added.
There's thought to be occasion for appointment by the S.M.M. and T. of a.n expert and independent technical referee to adjudicate at Show times and other times on the vexed question of commercial or private-car classification. That trailer-tramcars have failed.
That the best way back to the land is by commercial motor.
That the Simms-Vernier coupling will transmit 5 h.p. at 500 r.p.m.
That the automatic regulation of the timing of the spark is gaining in favour.
Of a magneto giving four sparks per revolution at 5,000 ap.m.-333 -per second.
That the magneto of a London bus is stripped and reassembled every six months.
That the electric vehicle continues to make considerable headway in America.
That some of the seats in the tube trains are of the "thoroughly well-sprung" variety.
That the small diameter employed is due to the high speed at which these shafts transmit the power.
"Thrice armed is he who hath his quarrel just, but nine times he who gets his bus there lust I " Of .a reversible staircase with which experiments are being conducted on certain London tramcars. • That it's still taking more headwork than usual to provide work and wages for mechanical transport.
That the idea of one-man control for passenger vehicles is now being extended to certain types of tramears.
That many provincial bus authorities are now wisely prohibiting passengers from occupying part of the seat in the driver's cab..
That, judging by the height of the drop into that can in the Shell picture, efficiency in pouring out appears not to be limited to dividends.
That if the State holding in the Anglo-Persian Co. is sold to the oil magnates, it is thought petrol will immediately jump up 6d. a gallon in the U.K.
That omnibus passengers previously accustomed to a fixed lower step between conductor's platform and road surface still get jars in London when there isn't one.
That when the result of the trial of the petrol tax is officially announced as "not proven," the Petroleum Section of the London Chamber of Commerce contemplates giving a little dinner in honour of Pick the sapper and Shrapnel the gunner.