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That good impressions create new business. That most fire-brigade officials are underpaid. That the carriers' combine is still in the making. The bustle of the buses and the busting of (lie trams.
That labour leaders always get a fortnight's holiday, strike or no strike.
That since the Highgat e bus smash, taught. on later types. learners are That, London's tube and underground railways are losing much traffic to the motorbuses.
That it will be a long time before the transport of Nigerian tin calls for many commercial motors.
That the modern ploughman seldom " plods his weary way," but rather sits comfortably on his .gang plough.
That the structural weakness of Bridge will be only one of several flies trailer ointment, Westminster in the L.C.C.
That, having regard to advances in the price of materials, it is not to be wondered that all makers desire to raise prices.
That the L.G.O.C. traffic advisers are aghast at any suggestion of changing vehicles before entering the busiest. London streets.
That the L.C.C. Highways Committee describes the competition of the buses as " sudden," and that it's a shame to have. frightened them, That L. and S.W.R. town collection and delivery vans, of Karrier manufacture. may become increasingly in evidence throughout. London.
That motorbus interests must be careful that they do not make more enemies than friends by running along certain residential roads at Ealing and elsewhere.
That Mr. Rees Jeffreys is " as fit as a flea " since his return from Canada and the U.S.A., and that he has resumed his duties as secretary to the Road Board with old-time energy.
That one reason why motorbuses are in favour compared with trackless-trolley vehicles is that use of the former does not involve the owners in special charges for road maintenance.
That some of the large cargo boats should carry one or more motor lorries, just as I.hey carry their own cranes, and that the engines of such lorries might easily be adapted for auxiliary work on board.
That, some people would have preferred to have seen a Board of Trade inquiry take place after the recent Highgate Hill motorbus fatality, since, had the accident happened to a tramcar, such an inquiry would have followed automatically.
That if the Government were to essay a Parliamentary check on the price and profits of petrol the whole of our supplies might be diverted, and that, since coal has been in the country ab initio, there is no true analogy with control measures in regard to the price of gas. That the trial of War-Office V>-tonners ha., dwindled very significantly.
That Mr. E. Manville has no use for co-partnership in the motorcab Of new "idea" ideas for motorbus seating and destination boards in London.
That few people in London know what a trailer tramcar is, but that all London will unless Clause 27 of the L.C.C. Bill is kicked out by the Lords.
That the use of horsed visiting-traps is quickly dying out from all municipal and other corporate rounds of inspection, and that motors are now to be the vogue.
That it's a lot harder than it used to be to borrow commercial motors on the " good advertisement" rate of remuneration, and that the Roy Scouts are finding it out.
That Dublin people may next year be electrified by the arrival of motorbuses there, and that the vaunted' margins of the tramway undertaking may then prove to be rather hollow.
From a correspondent in Catania. Italy, that during a brief call in Naples he saw a fine Barna motor wagon overtake a local transport cart, drawing which was a miscellaneous team consisting of a horse, a bullock and an ass.
That many agriculturalists make a mistake when they -only avail themselves of motor services as a convenience, and prefer their own horse-drawn vehicles at all other times, and that such inconsistencies do not help forward the road transport.