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That Windsor residents are furious about certain road-servke licence refusals.
That if tyres make much more progress it may become a question of fitting new chassis to them.
That it is quite common for a set of pneumatics to last three years or more where the annual mile age is not great. 0 That the London Transport Board will always need to remember it must have the cash in to cash out.
That the mileage of the Evening Standard and Daily Expres's fleet in 1930 reached the remarkable 'figure of 1,849,120.
That a large motor manufacturer in America claims that only 10 per cent. of the factory cost of his products is debited to labour.
That the borough council of Marylebone has now completely motorized its fleet of municipal vehicles, the last of its horses having recently been solo.
That the hired observation coach may yet come into its own.
That .good design should aim at obviating the need for inspection pits, Of much attention now being paid to transmission systems having epicyclic trains.
That the information as to Whipsnade ordering examples from the Leyland zoo is incorrect.
Of more builders and repairers of railway rolling stock turning their attention to roadway plant. "Get together, keep together, pull (and haul) together."
Of hundreds of pounds being spent by coach and bus operators in obtaining licences.
That Paris also is considering a fusion of passenger-transport interests, but only those in operation on the surface.
Complaints from the public that Traffic Commissioners ought not to discontinue road services without first consulting them.
That lubricants of high viscosity-temperature coefficient and low carbon residue are being made synthetically by the polymerization of olefinic hydro-carbons with aluminium chloride.
That the most remarkable lorry is the American Relay with its two straight-eight engines, totalling 275 b.h.p., two independent transmissions and rear axles, seven speeds with servo gear change, sixwheel air brakes and servo steering.
Of the new reign of (regulation) terror.
That reciprocity is better than retaliation.
Of much criticism of rubber inter-leaving for springs.
That to ensure inissing no chance a job hauliers must be all ears.
That "prices clown, quality up" seems to be the popular slogan in the industry.
That th'e railways think there should he an eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not travel by road."