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The best times are bus times.
More of associated associations.
Of a penny rate following tramway penury.
That road haulage by industrial tractor continues to grow.
Of better passenger transport facilities required at 13ilston.
And that the local Development Committee has interviewed bus companies on the matter.
Of a rate-cutting war on the Hythe-Ashford (Kent) alotorbus route.
That the charge for a journey of over 11 miles has dropped to 3d. ?
Local thunderstorms predicted in weather and mining forecasts.
Proof that electric tramway companies needn't build castles in Spain.
A hint to the "Terriers "—" Get rid of the horse and the transport takes care of itself."
Somebody remarking that he has experienced more rivalry than chivalry during "rush hours."
Of making the unprofitable profitable by providing the hitherto unprovidable--i.e., suitable transport.
Amazement expressed at the amount of wheel-play some owners allow their vehicles to develop.
That tyre makers would be the last to discourage it —except on their own vans.
That another American manufacturer of electric vehicles is anxious to get a fopting in the British market.
That, owing to discards and disappearances, the growth of all-in totals of hackneys in service remains sticky.
Some people asking if the Rudge-Whitworth trailer for cycle and sidecar might not be fitted up as a baby caravan.
That some vehicles employed by travelling showmen to-day burrow into the country roads like a concrete breaker.
That a Birmingham firm Is Making a convertible private-hire car and motor hearse. Live or dead passengers, no to say! .
That, when boarding ;buses at Charing Cross, it's "Every man (woman and child) for himself and devil take the kindmost" That representatives of the National Institute for the Blind have been on tour with an attractive motor " shop," selling baskets and other articles made by their sightless craftsmen.
That the new charge of £6 a year per motive unit for the right to draw a trailer will cause thousands of owners to pay from January 1st next in respect of onethird only or even fewer of those now empowered at £2 each. That it may be melting'at Milan.
That some counties remain sun-shy.
Of false teeth for gears by welding.
That not every alleged super bus is superbus.
Of unrivalled uncertainty in unravelled regulations.
on load weights and measures and mileage.
Orroad hogs still driving through our muddled road laws.
A cynical remark that b.h.p. means boasted horsepower.
That what appears best on test is not always so in service.
Of more knots concerning the have-nots in the licensing field.
That coaching to the coast is now often as quick as by express train.
That local tradesmen object to traffic by-passes ana one-way-traffic streets.
That fare-cutting is like haircutting—what's taken off can't be put on again.
That plenty of punch is still needed to keep any operator on top in motorbus work.
That road motors which really work on more than 280 days a year are in the minority.
That country people are becoming very much tired of the three-day-a-week bus service.
• Of tourists by rail forgetting their troubles gladly on going in for motor coaching after them.
So much more about some things than one wishes and so much less about others than one knows.
That the preservation of tramcars is being backed for reasons other than the best Interests of the travelling public.
That there are still many people who like to imagine that London is empty in August, but that bus-owners know better.
That, with certain extra pushes which are contemplated, the roadway tunnel under the Mersey may be opened on May 1st, 1929.
That we're nearer than most people think to the day when 10 per cent, of power alcohol can and will be added to nearly every motor fuel.
That for the usual annual outing of the Dudley Cooperative Society 80 motor vehicles were in charge of the Midland Red Omnibus Co., carrying 2,130 passengers.