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Of smarter cabs for London. News of a novel petrol engine.
Calls for a safety brake on coaches.
"Stop your tickling, L.G.O.C. I " That users of petrol pumps are being pumped. .
Of certain rumours in the motor coach world.
That Thornycrofts put up an effective gas attack.
That the tractor-bus 'is, after all, a British conception.
Of drastic regulations to minimize street perils in Paris.
Of stupid objections to the Brighton Aquarium scheme.
Of still another suction-gas producer for motor vehicles.
The query—will the motorbus station come to London?
That facilitating tyre pumping will popularize pneumatics.
That running motor coaches in a wintry-summer a sore trial.
That many bus time-tables compel speed limits to be exceeded.
Of satisfactory resultsfrom the experiments with concrete roads.
Of a 4,000-mile caravan trek by a group of American manufacturers.
That Chicago municipal officials did a good thing in coming to London.
Of a rival to the motor coach station in the form of the.motorbus station.
Of British road vehicles running on rails and hauling trailers in Australia.
That a few weeks of fine weather would do coach proprietors a lot of good.
Much of the passing of the solid, but that it is too soon to choose the wreaths.
A suggestion that the bus driver should be " bussed instead of " trained."
That the Thornycroft gas producer has added to the laurels won by the company.
Of an outcry against promiscuous tarring of road surfaces in a bad state of repair. Of attended tours.
Of trippers and tippers.
That fare play's a jewel. Of a new electric chassis.
And sees "Express " versus " General."
01 the comedy of competition.
That bus drivers have to train.
That he who runs should read the G.M.
Of the effort to suppress the Express.
That bus drivers are among the best on the road.
Of extensive agricultural transport developments That " beanfeast " wagonette drivers are among /he worst.
Which is, perhaps, because they've been feasting.
That hard eases are not always the result of case. hardening.
is That the W.O. vehicle is not going to have a walk over.
That much interest was taken in our article on how drivers train for drivers' strain.
That The Daily News has been giving a series of articles on Henry Ford's career.
Of the tractor-lorry and the tractor-bus. Shall wt soon hear of the tractor-double-deck bus?
That the collection of fares from the running boards of motor coaches on regular service should be stopped.
That the motoring industry owes a great debt tn the late Lord Northcliffe for his consistent pioneer advocacy of motor traction.
That country bus drivers, who arrive too early at fixed points on their route, should wait there unt;l the scheduled time for departure.
That Manchester has set a good example in reducing cab fares, although the new rates are still higher than those prevailing in London.