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Of progress-by Kegress.
Too little of the best men. Inside news from outside.
Fog signals with pleasure at times.
That a motorbus shake-out is coming.
Tales of a good deal at Walthamstow.
" It's a pity to pity a petit appetit."
That money will be tighter for a time.
With reserve of intended taxation relief.
Of licence holders and licence holders-off.
Of Christmas --parcels going nearly all by road motors.
That a ticket is not always taken or used as it should be.
That whisky will be cheaper by April, but pro-. bably wholesale only.
That there's any amount of row on about the mounting of Snowdon.
That the order of the day is—" Get on with the roads, and on to them."
That better roads and more of them will soon help to improve the order book.
That there's not to be too long for too long motorbuses, for they may only have a short life, if a pay one.
That the vehicular dimension which is now unlimited, will soon, by Order of the Minister of Trans port, be limited. • That 1 per cent, of the annual duty will be asked for one-day motor coach licences if they.are brought into force.
That the average employment per commercial motor of all sizes and types is just below three persons (all grades).
That "Go to the Show" may be made a-concerted and universal advertising -slogan next time a Commercial one is held at Olympia.
That there was even better aggregate permanentway business at the Agricultural Hall than the whole rolling-stock business at Olympia.
That all-absorbing internal turmoil amongst railway staffs bar one is still precluding the possibility of any real attention for road-transport policy.
No valid reason yet why a motorbus for specified and suitable routes should not be of the same 33-ft. maximum legal length as a six-wheeler—to say nothing of tramcars.
That it may be comparatively easy to arrange a 15s. per h.p. tax for private motorcars of the lower powers, if it can be done without having to make good the loss of revenue by putting more on to taxicabs, motorbuses, motorvans and other, implements of trade on the roads. Of Essex roads with feet of clay.
Of kind and unkind preparations for 1924.
That clubs and associations should plump for the pump.
That too many yoUng engineers are seeking oil in Persia.
That police timing methods are causing more stir in Leicester.
That the Conservatives' close shave might be described as a bald win.
That too many people forget.that they will have 'no pocket in their shroud.
That the ad. might read—Chassis for public bodies or hearses for private ones.
No kind of reason why the State escapes contribution to road maintenance.
That Logan, thanks to the motor vehicle and the telephone, is not Logan buried.
That there's need for a lorry that, having put its wheels to the hill, runneth not back.
That the L.C.C. intend to make a new effort to combat bus competition by reducingfares.
That it is hoped to obtain a 16 per cent. increase in the number of passengers carried by adopting this expedient.
That only in its telephone number is the New Welding Co., Ltd., all at sixes and sevens.
The " Skotch " complaining that his haulier correspondents expect him to make bricks without straw.
That the day may not be far distant when in London we shall find motorbuses two abreast from Chiswick to Whitechanel.
That passengers are up, but fares are down, compared with 1922, and that the gilt on the motorbus gingerbread remains thin.
That few realize how many verses of Tennyson's poem "The Brook" are pecoliarly appropriate to the country motorbus and motor coach.
That the Empire Exhibition authorities and the police will be welt advised to increase the motorcoach facilities enormously beyond anything at present envisaged at Wembley..
That the creation of the new post of Director of Transport Services for London with the right man at the helm should do much to solve the problem of traffic in the Metropolis.