One Hears
Page 33
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
That the eight-wheeler is attracting more attention.
That vehicles manufactured at the A.E.C. Southall factory in 1933 had a.total horse-power of 116,402.
The hope expressed that hauliers generally will give better attention to the safe loading of sugar beet during the forthcoming season.
Of an increasing deLi
'nand from overseas for British oil-engined vehicles.
That to many a corporation the bus is the " gintleman (or lady) •tho pays the tint."
Of hours of running time saved for all road users since the trams on many formerly congested thoroughfares w er e superseded by trolleybuses. Of a prophecy that when the air is " black " with traffic all roads will have to be fiood-lit.
That traffic experts do not think the outlook quite so black as that.
Nothing but praise for the efforts of the A.A. and the R.A.C. in marking the way to agricultural show grounds and the sites of other similar events.
That official statistics point to a distinct advance in the mechanization of refuse collection.
That those• who would preserve England's rural beauty sigh for u .wireless electric lighting system.
Of a lamentable inadequacy of signposting in certain north-country towns, notably Bury and Rochdale.