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Of too much giving way.
General Election's audible warning.
That a short neck often means a long run.
That one thing not to take is anything for granted.
That not many bus conductors stand on ceremony.
That England strained passeth not her elastic limit.
That special insurance trafficking is hitting tariffing.
That there will always be at least six traffic problems.
That aloofness does badly in bus and tram scrambles.
The ordination of co-ordination being obstinately postponed.
That 21.7362 per cent, of the electors will travel by motorbus on the 29th.
Of experiments in trackless Australia to see if the chain track'.s on the right tack.
That point-to-point speed in many London stree'.,s is now only half what it was 10 years ago.
That quite a number of would-be seem to have come from the sea to go to the country.
That there's no such thing, for long, as playing at commercial motoring in any of its many branches.
Threats of a shilling loaf, and that soon one of the highest-paid staffs in England may be the staff of life.
That, in public transport by road, revenue lost through old bodies may be regained through old heads.
Of new accessories and parts which do not wear out because they are never under wear, and of others because they break first.
That someone seems to have put summer on the right road for England—can it have been one of those invaluable A.A. scouts That Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, is increasing its rates by 6d. to obtain the 2425 necessaryfor a new fire-engine, the present one having seen 40 years' service.
That, should next summer fulfil pessimistic prophecies and be worse than this year's, a Kegresse attachment, which will negotiate mud, marshes, loose sand and rocks, might advantageously be fitted to all motor coaches.
That Lord Ashfield will entertain to luncheon, at the Chiswiek works of the L.G.O.C., on Thursday, the 6th proximo, the day after they will have attended the Coming-of-age Banquet of the night before at the Savoy Hotel, a large number of C.M.U.A. members from all parts of the country. That actions-at-law get no cheaper.
That there's fog that is and fog that does.
That hours of estimates can beat years of accounts.
That outsiders hear least of London's oil turmoil.
Of some motorbus fleets still with overflow quarters.
That the motor works more manfully than the man.
Of uneasy heads without either coronets or crowns.
That there's not always credit in shutting people Up.
Of small country buses fading away below RI a day.
That the tramway's lodestar is to shed its roadload.
That liquid history of late has largely concerned petrel.
That there's money in selling out only if its not too late.
That fewer gamblers have attempted road transport lately.
Of good-natured things giving too much place to ill-natured things.
Of a change from deadliness to liveliness in manufacturing circles.
That bridges are being proved the weakest links in Britain's road chains.
That it's time tramcars paid more taxes, or got out of the traffic world.
That no one who has prayed Trojan° would be tempted to buy " other cars."
That living on the fat of the past is now over in this country's iron and steel trades.
That winter examples of after the ball " will now, bring much patronage to motorbuses.
People asking why the Ministry of Transport maps treat so many good roads with " Spurnery.'
That some terribly long letters have been passing about higher taxation for long-stroke engines.
That it would be a bad thing if one really only saw one's friends when the sun shone on them.
From a fair fare, that only -a youthful or rejuvenated complexion dare frame itself in the window of a yellow cab.