A Progressive Revival of Trade.
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Welcome evidences of improved trade in commercial .motors continue to assert themselves: the period of marking time is almost over, and our forecast for the New • Year is being justified. Omnibus makers have been in the wilderness for nearly three years, and the partial depression in other branches has been a sympathetic consequence of the had operating results of 1906 and 1907. It is, at last, being appreciated that inexperience and undue haste were serious contributors to the motorbus slump, whilst not a few careful students in the haulage world recognise the absence from their circumstances of the internecine competition and excess facilities which have financially undermined London's passenger-transport undertakings. Sobered by yet another proof of the adage " All is not gold that glitters," houses have been put in order to demonstrate by tenacious plodding the application of the metaphor Every cloud has a silver lining." In detail, four classifications of commercial motoring may be considered.