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2nd August 1927, Page 41
2nd August 1927
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That dead springs do tell tales. That a spare may save from despair.

Of the railway big four trying to shape. Of Morris-Cowley vans on postal service in America, .

That the proof of this page is its readers. Of under-type steamers as space makers.

That "always in stock " does not mean never sold.

That there's not always big money in big mileage..

That it's surer to be fed by motor than by spoon.

That the more a motor keeps going the sooner it stops.

Of -heaps of coppers, both taken and wanted, at the seaside,

That propaganda seldom gets home with the public In August.

That the practically indestructible is really constructable.

That Jix was as glad as Winston to seize the end of the Session.

That in transport matters road motors win count more and more.

That many a bus cots less per mile for pneumatics than does many a car.

That London traffic life has almost become one Dam thing on top of another.

That the depression of petrol prices scarcely balances that due to the weather. , That it's the traders, not the road hauliers, whom the railways are up against.

That the November World Transport Congress at Olympia will take some reporting.

That it will become a case of ten—twenty—thirtyforty—fifty years ago in Motoring before one realizes it.

That the motorized hare has put up the price of greyhounds by over 400 per cent. in less than four months, .

That the reason aromatic petrols do not detonate is that their primary combustion in the cylinder produces no peroxides.

That there's more money to be made in Britain during the next four months out of united milk than out of disunited petrol.

That close observers give America about one year before :a temporary financial panic will occur there through the overdoingof hire-purchase.

That the railway big four have itching fingers but do not know where to put them in order to do more than merely scratch the surface of their troubles. That more than their own comes into air-cleaners. That the "Rhino" can do almost anything but jump.

That the all-weather coach is the tripper's best friend.

That the Midland "Red " is filling up the gaps in its rural services.

That there's little to flap on a flapper on a flapperbracket nowadays.

That fools dress according to the calendar; wise men according to the thermometer.

Of much interest shown by farmers in the design and finish of Chevrolet vehicles.

That the taxi-cabby's life is not all beer and skittles, nor yet all joy-riding and palm-oil.

That "repairs while you wait" is not, but might be, the slogan of many tramway undertakings.

Of a local traffic authority's notice:—" Those who desire parking may be parked. by the police."

That the chief charm of the motor coach lies in the fact that it is not, in any sense, run on railwaylines.

—Happy is the English holiday-maker who early develops the ability to enjoy himself despite the weather.

That the question: "Should a body toll a body comin' thro' the Rye to Winchelsea road? "—is still being debated.

A stock breedee saying, most emphatically, that a ramp without side rails is useless for loading any but led animals.

That the Belfast Co-operative Society is adding considerably to its transport fleet, which is already the largest in the city.

Of a private company's successful action against a municipal authority in respect of the manufacture of a composition suitable for road construction.

That the question of municipal trading is of importance to many interested in the commercial-vehicle industry.

The bitter remark that: "The C.M. needn't have mentioned that the demonstrating cyclecars had to travel over many miles of pot-holed roads. Since they were travelling in England, that goes without saying."