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14th December 1911
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Cheers at the L.O.O.C. annual meeting. Everybody hastening to kick out the old year.

That some motor engineers evince the homing inst incl.

That that first Foden in Montreal has fairly knocked 'emit.

That the Central London motorbus people say very little but do very well.

Either too little or too much about rival motorbus companies for London.

That not every maker who sells into the home territory of another does so on merit alone.

That the General Motor Cab .Co.'s report and accounts provide interesting reading for lookers-on.

That Godalming's repentance anent the 10 mile limit may he a lesson to Bolton re axle-weights and speed.

That Weymouth Town Council already has a new motorbus proposal before it, and that the offer does not hail from 'Coventry.

That several well-known heavy-traffic men were seen going well over the floor at the R.A.C. Durbar Ball on Tuesday night last.

That only some of the L.G.O.C. directors are at heart favourable to more halfpenny fares, but that the others will come round to the view.

That there may soon be a shortage of motorvan drivers, and that new training arrangements should be taken in hand by both owners and makers.

That the new Dennis factory at Guildford has gone up in record time, and so partly by reason of the premium upon its roofing ahead of contract date.

That road motorbuses will not compete with the electrified Brighton line, but that aerobuses may do so by the time the single-phase system is installed by Mr. Philip Dawson.

That splendid stocks of seasoned oak and ash are held by Messrs. Parnell and Sons, of Birkenshaw, near Bradford, and that some buying departments would do well to get there in time.

That a big Toronto contractor is out to buy a fleet of steam wagons, and that several brother hauliers in San Francisco are shaping their motor plant for jobs connected with the 1913 International Exhibition in that city. That London taxi-drivers jibbed at going out again this month.

That the upward movement of this journal's circulation goes merrily on.

That the National Automobile Council is going ahead without the A.A.

That inspectiGn during a demonstration trial may in olve the observer in all kinds of porter's work.

That collapsible boxes for small miscellaneous decries are a valuable adjunct for fast motorvans

That some of the Yankee factories making agricultural motors are crowded with work, notably the Hart.-Parr plant.

That Mr. W. H. Gaunt of the First Garden City, Ltd., intends to invite visitors to the 1913 Road Congress to go to see Letchworth.

That Eastbourne motorbus department, has accepted the tender of the Anglo-American Oil Co., for motor spirit, at 10d. per gallon.

Fewer curses hurled at motorbuses, but a fair number still at milk-vans and noisy horse-drawn carts— to say nothing of some steam wagons and tractors.

That the three-day motorvan trial, carried out by the " C.11." last week at Reading, was favoured with the most execrable weather experienced during 1911.

That Mr. Walter Jackson, of Shipley Bridge, Bradford, now pins his faith upon HaRfords, and that he knows more than a thing or two about motor haulage in the West Riding.

That quite a, number of requests have recently been received by our business department for our series of London traffic cartoons, but that, at, the moment, they are all out of print.

That tramcar partisans omit to mention the cramped nature of the garden-seat accommodation on the top decks, and that some of the provincial double-deckers are scandalously uncomfortable in this regard.

That, in spite of persistent repetition by the daily papers, no Bristol motorcab company had anything to do with a certain bad smash at Bromley, or with last week's proceedings thereanent before L.C.J. Alverstone.

That most London taxi-drivers are ready to boo the name of the Editor of this journal, firstly because he publicly gave away the extras game 18 months ago, and again because he knew the parlous state of their Union 10 days ago.


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