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Curses on tramway rigidity and praise for the trolley-bus and its " dodgey ways."
That some of our journalistic friends wish that there could be a Berlin Show every year.
That the Vaterland cabaret upset preconceived ideas on what the expenses would amount to.
Re St. Giles's Circus, London, many wanting to know who is the ring-master and who the clown.
The suggestion that "unlimited-travel" tickets should have passport photographs attached to them.
Of a reader saying that in 19 years' experience of Liverpool fogs the only collision he ever had was with a tramcar.
Of the partial banning of horsed traffic in Oxford Street during specified hours on week-days as the thin edge of the wedge.
Of many who hope that the wedge will rapidly widen, although others are bitterly opposed to it.
Of a driver complaining, that if milkmen must have bottle-smashing orgies they might hold them in their dairies instead of on the high roads.
That there are many Folly Lanes in different parts of England, but coach owners will find themselves in the worst of the lot unless they stick together.
Of Londoners complaining that when coming out of the theatre on a wet 'night it is sometimes hard to find a taxi; in short, that there seems to be more Hi l-ing for plyer than plying for hire.•Of the following rhyme being suggested for the country station taximau :— "Tinkle, tinkle, little car, Everyone knows where we are If your works were newer, muter, I should have to buy a hooter." Of the Deutz oil engine in a British chassis.
That " comig" has been suggested as a good abbreviation for compression ignition.
That it might, however, be taken to mean " comic " as pronounced in these days of colds and 'flu. o That some brake-shoe facings incline one to alter the old adage to "friction is only skin deep."
Of many envying the motor driver who had occasion to pull up a police patrol for showing no rear light, That it is not always the largest and heaviest vehicle that suffers the least damage when in collision.
That very few people here realize that the PierceArrow chassis was designed by a well-known British engineer.
That the " mystery " chassis has been one of the chief topics in transport circles since it was announced.
That much greater use should be made of horseboxes for transporting highly strung horses to public exhibitions: That leading Stich animals through busy streets is not only a danger to them, but to traffic as a whole. 0 That, since a certain railway has bought a controlling interest in a local bus concern, a great deal of bus information has been deleted from their joint time-table.
That Sir Herbert Austin, K.B.E., was'very interested in the German exhibits, but wonders when the designers will give up the shadow of novelty for the substance of normal design.
Conversations in whispers about new fourwheeled and six-wheeled steam wagons which will have very much lower unladen weights and will give performances comparable with .large petrolengined machines.