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Of great Show space surprises.
Mtich about the need for speed.
Of scope left to cut out weight. That ideals seldom end in deals. Of another cement push for roatls.
Of still more comprehensive equipment.
Cries for more cash for the back roads.
That "Show of Shows" has caught on.
Of coachwork for 1928 holding many surprises.
That the end of the season may yet be .a catch.
That the Bristow anniversary fund is totting up. . That most bus users now have that cushion feeling.
That At shouldn't be hard to clean without scratching.
That the long and the short of it will remain in bus construction.
From those who find that the lire-Show weeks are shortening all too soon.
That graceful body lines are worthy of still more attention from owners.
That a preposition is still a bad word to end a motoring. sentence with.
Of those who think the Road Traffic Bill has already been introduced.
That from March next the totals of hackney-vehicle registrations will mount without pausing.
That wise owners in the hilly counties are even now looking to their non-skids for snowy weather.
That, whilst horses and trains remain much as they were, commercial motors keep on improving.
Of novel intentions, and programmes for November's World Motor Transport Congress and Show.
That those chassis which are always off the mark to time, make both their mark and their market.
That if our British railways obtain and use general road-transport powers each will have to cut into another's territory.
That we may see the extra luxury of air-filled sectional coverings on the floors of some first-class motor coackes before long.
That directors of bus companies are increasingly seeing the wisdom of encouraging their employees and customers to become shareholders.
That whilst the extra taxation this year has been made good in the motorbus world by lower petrol prices it has,' on the whole, been lost again by the worse weather. —" Up with steam!" • Also-7-" Up to London with (and by) steam!"
Of rival unrivalled values.
Of things nearly not to he believed.
That covered top-decks laugh at rain.
From the pessimists: "It'll be snow next."
Of country buses in which everything rattles, including the passengers.
Of thick carpets; mats and rugs of various makes for bus and coach floors.
The prophecy that South African roads will SODII provide a motor paradise.
It more generally admitted that cost does not outweigh additional convenience.
That the rate-cutter is a throat-cutter, but, in nine caSes out of ten, the throat is his own.
That the mileage throughout Ireland traversed by motorbuses amounts to twice that of the railways.
Of foul fair weather, of merry-go-rounds and unexpected water chutes and tractors bogged to the axles.
That motor taxation on the present scale is likely to produce £30,000,000 gross in the financial year 1930-31.
A bright suggestion that recent unexplained whirlwinds are due to the increased use of the roundabout traffic system.
That body-building calls for engineering skill as well as art, and a design that is a good-looker may prove a.bad doer.
That it's to be held to be up to the railways to produce their plans for the co-ordination of road and rail transport.
That not of least value to the agricultural community is the social benefit conferred by the bus in brightening up village life.
That, on the industrial side of agriculture, milk production has gained most by the use of the motor vehicle.
That the proposed steam trek to London during the Commercial Vehicle Show at Olympia should enable steamers to give themselves a puff.