ONE HEARS
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That there's a big bust about the big bus.
That the quality of hearsay is often strained.
Mostly from or about intentions on the coast.
Of final motor-coach bodies very late in delivery.
That the steam wagon remains a national asset.
That the chance to stand easy never seems to come.
That a clear run does not always mean a clear out.
That there's an end to even the roundest bus body.
That milk in glass-lined tanks carries better than beer.
That hope on the road seldom triumphs over experience.
• That some slips can be neither covered nor recovered.
That nothing seems to mar the motor-coach boom at Margate.
Of the taxation controversy switched from petrol to horse-power.
That there's more money than meets the eye in motorbus stations.
There are years of disposal gears still for disposal, but not of all makes.
• That gas traction is far from done with, but that there's no money in gas-bags.
That a few of the car interests are trying to round on some of the heavy interests.
That its very difficulty makes the value of organization in a modern motorbus service.
The fare-cutting by railways cannot get many people back once they've used motorbuses.
That this year's National Revenue will be largely helped _by collecting income-tax arrears.
That charcoal, anthracite, and, breeze will be the popular fuels for portable gas producers.
Of rates being sought and quoted for assurance against low temperatures during August.
That those companies which c:Ln get additional capital are wise in going for it while they may.
• That more cricket teams have travelled by motor coach during the present season than in any. earlier one except 1921.
That touting is becoming a nuisance at more than one pleasure resort where rival motorbus owners• strive to thrive.
That, when the Soviet smoke screen is ordered to blow away, Germans will be found to own most in Russia that's worth having.
That the St, Paul's Bridge controversy is by no means settled, but that the Cathedral itself goes on settling without the attraction of still more traffic. Of the " dual-purpose " subsidy vehicle.
That the Ford people have picked up that brick.
That there will be a Kingston-Brighton motorway.
Of road " mending " washed away by oneday of rain.
Of mass production which is also " class " production.
That mechanical road transport is the best teacher of realities.
That "One Hears" are chiefly concerned with one's fun-smile capacity.
That one receives many lessons in addition and multiplication at the Morris works.
That August will, fortunately, not see any traders left to get along only with horses.
Re the Bateman picture, that it isn't every 'coachdriver who'll give people a free lift That London, according to an engineering expert, is perpetually shivering in her shoes.
That those who have to reckon with English weather are, invariably, out in their reckoning.
The motor thief remarking that he has long been convinced of the advantages of a high-speed steal.
That the compilers of a country bus timetable should not let the whole front cover advertising space to an undertaker.
That those who want to turn our country roads into elongated orchards would have to net the trees to net the profits.
That rural it is, truly rural, to go in for more money for roads, and that some motorists object to this attack of ruralitis.
That if motor taxation were doubled, whilst all mechanical transport might not disappear, the smaller men in it certainly would.
Of a "long, long trail" of 70 coaches and saloon buses in an outing of over 2,000 people organized last week by the Dudley Co-operative Society.
That 00 of the vehicles were Midland Reds.
Of one of the passengers who remarked that he had " never seen such a party ' in his life."