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That we've had more than enough wind up and rain down this year.
That "keep your eye on the G.P.O." seems to be S.T.R.'s advice to haulage contractors.
A prophecy that the slogan of future ages will be " The kind that owns the oil wells rules the world."
That the new Southdown bus from Brighton to London via Hayward's Heath is packed every day.
That the return fare is only 5s. 6d. and for that one is sure of a comfortable seat, -whereas on the railway's half-fare day one frequently has to stand in the corridor all the way up to town.
Someone, and not a youngster either, calmly announcing that " there were no motorcars in 1900."
That it just shows how necessary records are as aids to human memory.
That the "fog effect" in a recent "ECO." advertisement made everyone look at it twice and so enhanced its publicity value.
That, whereas trees blown down by gales stop railway and tramway lines of communication, buses simply travel by alternative routes.
That very often in excursion trains one has to choose between standing on one's own feet or sitting with Someone else standing on them.
Someone wondering what S.T.R. would say to a haulier who boated that he had saved three journeys by carrying four tons of tiles in one load on his Ford one-tonner.
That S.T.R.'s remarks would probably be unprintable, but they'd certainly be to the point.
Of wide-awake sleepercoach developments.
That Lady Cobham is an Al platform speaker.
Of a new Fordson industrial tractor that is to be a corker.
That our stock of cnithets for dirty weather is almost won out. That Charing Cross will, presumably, be resurrected before it dies.
That Class I roads are costing 1100 per mile per annum less to-day than they were six years ago.
That all the railway companies intend to petition against the L.C.C.-Underground traffic schemes.
That the fire-brigade vehicles of the London Salvage Corps still bear a painted sign "12 m.p.h."
That the London-Liverpool coach now travels via Manchester and that the takings are quite satisfactory.
That the G.117.R. hope to include some additional facilities in respect of the Cheltenham-Omford road service in the near future.
That London's case for co-ordinated passenger transportation facilities and management will be an Ashfield-Birkenhead-Maybury affair.
That the Royal Commission after taking railwaycompany and railway-union evidence this and next month will take the tramway views next.
That some fleet operators consider a better idea of working costs is afforded by working out the accounts on a bus-hour rather than a bus-mile basis.
That Rushton Tractors, Ltd., is an offshoot of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.,nnd will make agricultural and industrial tractors at Feltham,_Middlesex.
That it won't be Shrapnell-Smith's fault if Woolwith does not ultimately get a high-level bridge•of the overhead-arch type with transporters added to run on the main longitudinal girders.
That happy brake linings never squeal.
That the greatest fuss may concern the smallest bus.
That there's more than one catch in motorbus operation.
That motorbuses now on order by tramway committees exceed 1,300. . n1.0