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That night travel by road has its bright side.
. Heated discussions about "Roads Above the Railways."
That some trailer brakes Won't because the drivers don't.
—Why. straphang? Travel by Toad and let the straps go hang.
Already of talk of the passenger-vehicle wonders that Olympia should reveal.
Many queries as to whether long-distance services ore really paying their way.
That dominoes is not a favourite game amongst long-distance coach operators. • Of strange passwords amongst operators running long-distance passenger services.
No good reason why the long-distance busser should travel by, road very much slower than the Rolls-Roycer.
That christening a new • vehicle may cost more than the "fizz,' particularly if the bottle be stronger than the radiator shell.
That the total ownership of road motors by British railway companies is stilt .less than half a vehicle per railway station.
That it may be another four years betfore the railway companies own one road motor per station.
That it was a great idea to have only one speaker —Sir T..George Beharrell, D.S.O.—for 22 national motoring and transport organizations at last Thursday's deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
That •time-tabling is to be widened.
The petrol-price outcry lasting and not least. The first shell fired at Brighton's tramways.
That tar-oils are better on roads than in engines. Nothing but ' window-rattle in certain London 'Lamentations about coaching prospects, following that 2/d.
That more bodybuilders are being attracted to the all-metal form' of construction.
Of still more municipalities pulling up rails to keep down expenses.
Of 50 m.p.h. averages on coach services between American towns.
That import duties are not -such a barrier when chassis are shipped unassembled.
That this is the kind of enterprise advocated by the Prince of -Wales.
Many favourable comments on our suggestidn for roads above the railways.
Of several men who say that roads have • been above the railways for a long time.
Of many people wishing to kick themselves for not having thought before of roads above the railways.
That others did,. but not for use in the way we suggest.
That following Sir Josiah Stamp's return from Berlin an L.M.S.announcement as to co-operation . with existing motorbus companies may be expected • at any moment.
That nobody has a soft • time on a hard seat, That heavy oil may become heavy-priced oil.