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16th April 1929, Page 89
16th April 1929
Page 89
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That over-soft tyres have hard times, That much of the paper in streets is advertising matter.

That all is not sold that litters.

That a dustbin on the kerb is worth two in the back-yard.

Of Glasgow's Chief Constable acknowledging the futility of speed traps.

Coach owners praying that America will pass her heat wave on to us.

Of the old generation and the new working smoothly together at Chelsea.

Of many who enjoy hearing the Mien motor works band "tell the world" by radio.

Of somebody who is anxious to test the cornet soloist with a pressure gauge.

That if London's streets were left unswept the city would soon be buried under bus tickets.

That New Yorkers, unlike Londoners, are quite overcome by the politeness of our taxi drivers.

That Londoners who visit New York understand why.

That the North-East Coast Exhibition which opens in Newcastle next month is expected to provide a lot of traffic for northern coach owners.

Of tidy picnickers known as "litter-day saints." • Of railway accountants going over bus companies' figures with a tooth comb. Of gleeful coach owners in Bolton and Portsmouth.

That "t' coop," coaches and cash are to the fore in those towns.

Of new chassis as the corpuscles in traffic arteries.

Of the broken basket bother and the bent bin bugbear.

That in London it is occasionally still quicker to taxi than to walk, That dearer petrol has cut down bus season-ticket facilities.

That some railway folk regard coaching as poaching.

That the Government still regards petrol, like beer, as a luxury fluid.

That top-spinning may cause skidding indirectly, but that it is not the same thing.

That it is not a driver's business to see whether a miss is good for a smile.

That henpecked husbands rush for the smoking compartments of some buses.

That it is a very small rise in petrol prices which does not inspire carburetter advertisements.

A Birmingham firm is now prepared to despatch by air mail spare parts for motor coaches and lorries.

Of the luxury tram— but not of the silent one.

The whine of the motorborne vacuum cleaner in spring (cleaning) time.


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