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Thunder again.
Of slide rules in use in taxicab& Of camels giving place to Scanimells.
Of taximeter dials that are unreadable.
That America is dead short of creosote: Of an effort to boom the electric commercial vehicles.
Of efforts to exploit the demand to see Ireland by bus.
That it is not a very long way to Tipperary—by bus.
Of advocates of mutual motor insurance now rather mute.
That bus competition is very keen in Dublin and Belfast.
That not all is yet. daylight in the path of the Mersey Roadway Tunnel.
Depression may produce compression, but not under all circumstances. 0 That with the roads going to the dogs, Wise dogs keep to the footpaths.
That, judging by tha loads of bricks one sees, the building fever is scarlet.
That the suppression of the Road Fund has caused more than one rebellion.
That it is proving, to be.. safer in the country to keep appointments by motorbus.
The true explanation of cheap petrol is low sale prices for supplies from Russia.
. That any industry which seeks: to insure against every risk is heading for bankruptcy.
Of comparatively few smiling owners who often enough score a score of pence per bus-mile.
That still more services in the rural districts of Ireland are on the point of development or inauguration.
From the Chancellor of the Exchequer that it is better to repair the sinking fund than the deteriorating roads. 0 Someone asking if rates are going up all over the country because the Road Fund raid ha G to be balanced somehow.
That suggestions for the employment of men,. other lhan qualified police constables, for the work of traffic direction are now viewed with favour by municipal authorities. 0 From Sir Gordon Guggisberg that Gold CoastColony wants 1-ton and 1-1-ton lorries and that Germany 'seems more ready than Britain -'to• study her requirements. • Of test-pressure drill.
—" Toll for the tolls."
Of coal going into another hole.
Of bumps and slumps in Glasgow.
That most hooters produce scooters.
Of weather getting hotter and hot tar.
Of tar barrels, "like awful threats," along many country roadsides.
Summer is a cumen in ; coaches are a-coming out. That it's harder to find an unbussed road than it was.
That the driver who is changing course should give way.
That the present cannot run on the roads of the past.
That "van in" as a good position is not limited to lawn tennis.
" Of more money for roads in Ireland as well as reduced income tax there. • That most judges give the pedestrian and the cyclist the benefit of any doubt.
That not every bank overdraft is a bad sign at this -stage of the motor coach season., That it's useless to be two-faced or double-Minded in a traffic fight on a competitive motorbus route.
That the wise owner joins the C.M.U.A. and puts that organization between himself and possible trouble.
, That it's worth at least 4d. a mile run to some bus proprietors not to go too near any railway station with their services.
There's likely to be an Al discussion at Birmingham on the morning of the 20th inst., when the congress of the Institute of Transport deals with "Highway Costs per Ton-mile of Traffic."
From those who really know the motorbus business on the operating -side that they find it wiser to hear, unmoved, and without utterance of denial or protest, lots that's thought from the outside to represent the inside.