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Of a certain eccentricity in some bus circles.
That the battle of Waterloo Bridge is not yet won.
That there's little lasting about a horse but its appetite.
That too Merryman. many ignore Doctors Diet, Quiet and That the next rise timed early. in the price of petrol ,has been That railway and tramway pasts are prophets of motorbus futures.
That London traffic discord, whilst still billed, is far from being stilled.
Surrender values and cheaper quarterlies were well received.
That something gained on account is better than all left in the taxation squabbling-pot.
That there may one day be signal errors in road transport, and that there may have been some already.
Regrets expressed that Col. F. E. Stevens, chairman of Wethered's, was laid up last week with phlebitis.
That finding the wages each Friday is temporarily easier just now for owners of small fleets of hackneys.
That London tralle at its worst to-day is enormously better than in the heyday of the hay-motor 25 years ago.
That Ford may after all be found able to afford it at Trafford after August 1st, and that we shall then see the 'ultra-Ford,• Of a possible fresh and full' inquiry by the Treasury into h.p. rating and evasion of taxation under the present formula.
That incidence of taxation is proving a harder nut to crack than even the fuel tax and may have to go to a Select Committee of the House of Commons.
That Marlow is highly pleased at the acquisition • in one week of a notable silver cup and of a beautiful drinking fountain in memory of Charles Frohman.
The suggestion that a replica in silver of the seated • figure on the Frohman memorial would be more attractive than a cup for the next Commercial Motor trophy.
More than a mere rumour that the Government may be foolish enough, as from July next, to lose Sir Henry Maybury's services to the makerof a very tempting offer of a personally congenial civil occupation.
• That there's a growing inclination to look with favour upon Pluvius policies against wet-day risks, and that the Meteorological ,Branch of the Air Ministry has adopted a special form of rain-gauge, which is accurate in its critical readings to fivethousands of an inch, for insurance certifications. Gi' us a look at the coop, lad.
Of a bus-driver inventor at Maidstone.
That transport, like Shakespeare, is of no age.
That 1929 at Rainhill will outshine 1925 at Darlington.
That the Government's motto seems to be " Charity begins abroad."
Of a country butcher who finds that it pays to deliver meat by motorcycle.
That in in nothing more than in transport work can a keen man who is there give himself education.
That there is no truth in the rumour that S-D Freighter buses will be run on the streets of London.
A weather-weary reader remarking—" But every ,month, now, comes in like a liar and goes out with a slam."
That devolved authority in any scheme of organization is dangerous in the absence of discipline throughout.
That losses due to unpaid fares in and on many a large motorbus are less than the cost of a second conductor to eliminate them.
That life in the motorbus world may not remain tolerable unless licensing reform, when it comes, includes conditional franchises.
That if railway services are the key to the country's development, road-motor services are the key to the comforts of its hearths and homes.
That the rumour concerning de luxe taxis equipped with expanding awnings and carpets to spread for the convenience of the fare (or fair) must be taken cum grano salis.
That there is disagreement amongst road surveyors on the comparative merits of spending available money on a small mileage of road done very well indeed or a larger mileage merely improved upon what it is.
That it's time the propaganda and publicity officer ' attached to the railway general managers' committee stopped the use of comparative figures of fatalities between like and unlike, e.g., between passengers killed on railways and total people killed on highways, and that the Institute of Transport should not be so readily bluffed.