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ONE HEARS

Of none so lax as those who pay no tax.

That when output drags, so do overheads.

That the Aspinall ticket punch iS hitting out.

That a bold front ill becomes any road motor..

That the best four wheels are the rears of sixes.

Of changes also needed in highway-bridge laws.

Of blocks of very spongy rubber as seat-cushions.

Of motorized deserts to be less and less deserted.

— 0-Of railways' fears for their own partial eclipse.

That more and more feeding depends on speeding.

That it was always more easy to spend than to earn. That neither pining nor pioneering often pays as such.

That roadles,s traction does not mean any road less. That it remains to be Sean in the Irish Free State.

That Empire Markets Provide Increased Real Exports.

That not every driver kern an engine's ticking-over r.p.m.

That nothing excels the modern motorbus in constancy.

That too rapid overtaking may cause premature overhauling.

Doubt expressed concerning the rest of this alleged summer.

That the Prime Minister is now alive to the real need for good roads and bridges.

Of no slackening of new entrants and new purchasers in the commercial motor world.

That running costs are one of the few things that can be run down without suffering.

That at long last it now pays to put a good selfstarting equipment on most types of commercial motor.

That country bus routes might with advantage be planned with more attention to their linkage with other services.

That in many eases the connexion is lost by a few minutes only, but much patronage is lost in consequence That outside passengers on London buses would appreciate the prominent display of a fare table for their information and convenience. • That commercial motors can, and do, in fact, provide traders with transport service superior to that offered had they their own special trains. .

That, however stormy the weather, the steward on the Bristol-London bus has not to render Such unpleasant services to passengers as his cousin at sea. Of new vehicles on weekly payments.

That carrying a pig saves its bacon. • Of no fears that the Royal will be eclipsed. That even the aristocratic pig now drives to market. "Give them Beans" from ▪ Sir Robert Hadfield, Part. In these times more of cross-road than cross-word puzzles.

That Blackpool's tower-wagon is not to comriete with the tower.

That everything comes to him who waits—except the bus he waits for.

That the IrOcien six-wheeler constitutes another step along the path of progress.

That a cyclist in modern London traffic needs more lives than a cat to enable him to keep one intact.

That the countryside is now strewn with fragments of red glass cast aside by disappointed eclipse-gazers.

That the wonder is not that they, get so many people on the buses nowadays, but that they get So few under them.

How for the time being "the totality belt" eclipsed " the totalisator" as a star turn in the newspaper columns.

Someone asking is it bus and coach competition that has made the Southern Railway services so much more punctual of late.

, That all this flood of eclipse Press propaganda was instigated by the N.A.M.R.G. (the National Association of Makers of Red Glass).

That cross-roads in open country are usually provided with signposts, but those in towns seldom are, although they well might be.

—" Where was Moses when the light went out?"

"If you're talking about the eclipse he was probably in a motor coach watching it through smoked glasses."

That the member of our staff who for years kept by him some rare double-flashed orange glass (the making of which is a lost art) awoke on " eclipse-day " to a chill leaden sky that was equally effective in preserving his eyesight.