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A tale of the trial of a trailer.
Of new magic in the pneumatic.
Of railway wire-pullers who are dejected.
Of more ventilation by discussion of the Road Traffic Bill.
That there's been more than froth-blowing over the Budget. • That all London's motorbuses may be on pneumatics by 1929.
That Mr. Churchill may perchance sell or gratify most of us.
That flooding a bus route turns everybody on it into an also ran.
That that of the C.M.U.A. is regarded by some as some luncheon.
That other money often baulks the bus-owner who boastingly talks.
Of queer, if forceful, language in some provincial anti-tax resolutions.
That silence is observed not always even by the Chancellor in unguarded moments.
From many who were suspicious when those reductions were made In petrol prices.
That whilst neither railway travelling nor motorcoaching is what it was, the latter is not yet what It will be.
That there's to be .still keener competition for The Commercial Motor Challenge Cup in 1928, with Wethered's of Marlow eligible again.
That putting the screw on motorbus proprietors is slackening as a municipal sport in certain county boroughs and getting worse in others.
That if the covered top-deck for the motorbus put the last nail in the tramcar's coffin, the rigid-frame sixwheel chassis has now eoine along to help bury it.
Of time stupidly wasted standing still at some illchosen turning-points in motorbus service when another mile or so added to the route would use it usefully by serving another village and securing enough immediate new revenue to cover the extra running costs.
The retort courteous to "A hint to overseas agents"
in"One Hears" (issue of February 15th) :—
A warning to British manufacturers:— If you wish to sell your bus, There's one thing to remember: A man who wants a bus in June Won't wait until December. Will it be a North-Easter?
"Summer Time? Then, where's the snow?" Of no unanimous rejoicing over the Budget.
That the deep depression centred about April 11th is spreading over the whole of Britain.
Of 63.0 miles per gallon On a standard Ford car. That motor coaches are now being fitted with buffets.
That if this-idea grows it will form a new problem for licensing authorities.
That, thanks to the motorbus and coach, the rural fastness is losing much of its slowness.
How a Soviet-organised lightning coal strike for England missed fire, so no one nii&sed fires.
That the reckless driver ought to remember that "the other driver may be a darned fool, too."
Someone asking if the Chancellor of the Exchequer's favourite hymn,is,." What will the harvest be?"
Of 64-in. by 14-in, pneumatic tyres used on American • bombing aeroplanes. They are said to carry 10 tons.
That broadcasting of forecasts is a great help to those who are taking thought for the morrow's coaching trip.
That if a tax were levied on the few wothen who retain their long hair they'd father be shingled than 'be. shorn.
That, if each cross-road is to have its inscription, it is to be hoped that each level crossing is to have its epitaph.
That the Bendix Brake Co. intend this spring to establish a works in England for the complete manufacture of Bendix brakes.
That the U.S. Navy Department has made successful tests with a heavy-oil engine for aeroplanes and that contracts for its supply will soon be arranged.
From America that the use of trailers increases maintenance costs by 20 per cent., but that gross earnings also increase by from 25 per cent. to 100 per cent.