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That C.M. is'a synonym for "True Prophet." Of coach operators singing "Spring is coming."
That the best non-skid is the multi-wheeled bogie.
Of some rail-bus fares shortly to be supercharged.
That Bournemouth hankers for an all-motorbus system. °— That the vehicle should be well lit, but the driver should not.
Of plenty of passenger-travel activity around Cheltenham.
Of an amazing amount of imported mud on concrete roads.
That one recent chassis advertisement may be alluded to as something of a bombshell.
That coach restrictions will produce most of the complaints and protests of 1931 from the travelling public.
That the only way to deal with the question of coaches entering central London is by separate consideration of individual cases.
That the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner is the man for that task, but even he should have an expert advisory committee.
That, as time is money, some statistician might work out how much of the road users' s. d. is wasted in a year by level-crossing delays.
That a coach halting for a minute does not 'cause the congestion that a horse-drawn brewer's dray causes when stopping 20 minutes to unload barrels across the footpath.
That the brewers get off lighter, nevertheless.
• That there may be a reshuffle of petrol cmpanics' orders.
That competition on the road, or the lack of it, will remain live questions. Of still more oil engines in the offing.
That at present much of the news is pneus.
Of the goods train as " snailway transport."
That oil-engine average speeds are rising steadily.
That bad labelling matters less in one's own vans.
That some of the cheap new pneus contain a proportion of old pneus.
That the hire:purchase business is neither all honey nor money.
That Miss Ellen Wilkinson is trying to take away what few plums there are,.
That the railwaymen are waiting to see the railway dividend announcements.
That a motor coach company is preparing to run a Newcastle-on-Tyne-London aeroplane service.
That the Empire Industries Association continues to be keen on the extension of Empire transport.
That, whilst it is true that Diesel oil is normally difficult to ignite, oil mist is actually highly inflammable.
That this is also true of finely powdered coal floating in air, That excess legislation has put the commercialvehicle industry in arrears which it will take every effort to make up.
The query : "Are the days when the travelling public and traders were glad to go to the railways gone for ever?"
That the growth of railway co-operation in road services has so far barely made a start in longdistance coaching, as compared with what is contemplated to meet the public taste.
,That cost and price are closing in on one another.
That all road transport asks is the right to compete without• unfair handicaps.