One Hears— Quite a lot of Doncaster.
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That a spring washer is not a soap.
"It is better to be hated than despised."
Of " One hears " developing in the Press.
That the doings of this journal keep others agoing.
That few are so blind as those who are driven into a corner.
That good men are hard to secure in the motorbody-building trade.
That Doncaster's accommodation is limited, and that all was reserved weeks ago.
That the C.M.U.A. membership is being steadily helped up to the first thousand.
That the turbine people do not mean to sit down under that 25-cwt. slight at Edinburgh.
That permanent-way repairs on the L.C.C. tramways are a permanent source of trouble.
That Lancashire spinners mean to come out winners in motor transport, despite police bullyings.
That the Daimler Co is about to erect a large range of special shops for its commercial-vehicle branch.
From Mr. Leo. Swain, that no attempt has yet been made to raise money for a parade at Manchester.
No reason why Glasgow Health Department gave only seven days notice that it wanted to buy four motorvans.
That a fishmonger's car in Yorkshire has now once again been turned into a private car, and that it may be a water-cart yet.
Of dissatisfaction amongst employees who do not care for the publicity accorded to their ages on the new National Insurance cards. * .
That 10s. 6d. cash down is asked before Nottingham's motor ambulance is allowed to turn out to succour an injured man or woman.
That the delivery of a new char-ii.-bancs at Brighton on a recent Saturday afternoon just suited some of the employees of the firm who had built it.
With surprise, considering the activity in the coach-building trade, of the shutting down of a large old-standing timber firm just outside London.
Of a motor truck in Chicago knocking down a small child, and the driver thereof being charged with assaulting the child with a "deadly weapon" and fined £200.
That one wag at The Motor Museum last week kept talking about his inanimate friends, and that he certainly did appear to be intimate with most of the old crocks there * That the L.G.O.C. may seriously take up the controlling alternative of compressed coal gas for its motorbuses, but that the petrol people do not intend to force the investigation by another increase in price 101 months hence. That Esdaile alias Gentry wants someone else to fly to India.
That the Secretary of the C.M.U.A. is taking a short holiday in Norway.
That the L.G.B. is considering an amendment re independent brakes.
That Mr. Julian Orde's little show at Bromley last Saturday was much appreciated.
That Unic van chassis have larger engines than Unic cab chassis, and different gearboxes.
That great satisfaction is being expressed in Birmingham at the behaviour of the new motorbuses.
Of the near completion of a fine new-pattern bus body, with a steel torpedo front and other striking features, for the L.G.O.C.
That Scotland Yard is exercising increasing vigilance in connection with the passing of candidates for motorbus drivers' licences.
That there is no end of a flutter in the steam-wagon world anent the axle-weight attack, and that the C.M.U.A. defence campaign is being cordially backed.
That people who doubt motorbus finance can find a bigger margin of profit per mile on Wolverhampton's services than on the same corporation's electric tramcars.
That it is impossible to justify the retention of central standards or street refuges upon any basis of argument that can be correlated with evidence and practice.
That a poster on Newcastle station invites local inhabitants to "Come out of the gloom and go to Golder's Green by tube," and that it seems a long way to go home in the dark.
That since the publication of a photograph of the tram-infested crossing outside the old Holborn Town Hall, an additional staff of L.C.C. tramway traffic regulators has been installed.
That a margarine manufacturer has painted his Halley motorvan cream colour, and that it's very smart, and that the driver is wondering what the milk and butter inspectors think.
That one bellicose petrol-vehicle maker stated his intentions towards steam-wagon makers tersely if unkindly when he said that he meant to " beat the everlasting stuffing out of them."
That several railway companies are shortening down their free warehouse accommodation, but that all are still a pliable long way above their zero duties in this regard as common carriers.
That the L.G.O.C. jolly well does wish it got its petrol at 4(1. a gallon inclusive of the 11d. a gallon duty, but that it may not be more than W.—which is not so bad, even for nearly 1000 tons a week.
That an inquiry by a pleasure party for chars-a-banes included a request to know if the quoted price included refreshments, whilst another desired to know if each char-i-bancs carried ambulance equipment.