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"Good Show! Good Show I " Of the importance of body-colour.
Of an April fools' boat race in 1922.
That no one has heard the cuckoo yet.
That Venice is to have a motor bridge of size.
That monthly licences constitute a difficult problem.
OF many municipal bodies on the track of the trackless.
Of great concentration on running cost reduction problems.
Of makers who can reduce the weight of their bodies without banting.
Of others who favour the " small passenger."
That "there were three Nicholsons on the field," but there's only one R.T.N.
A query as to whether the country bus business is not being rather overdone.
That the new Clarkson lorry is a great step forward in steam-driven vehicle design.
Of an increased output of solar energy, and that even the moon is reported to be getting up steam.
That the Government helped local authorities with £10,000,000 from the Exchequer, for roads, in 1918.
That the railway campaign for the discomfiture of the independent road transport operating -concerns has already commenced.
That the best defence against such methods is attack. That is where road transport. tactics will come in.
• 0 That there is a possibility of the 'very interesting collection of captured vehicles, in the possession of the Army, being Suitably housed and preserved.
A suggestion that Mr. Shrapnell-Smith was born rather too late to save the canals from .disastrous railway competition, but that he may be more successful with the roads.
Of an article on " The Abolition of the Horse " in • a Service magazine. They will have to abolish the horse-soldiers of senior rank before they can abolish the "hairy." _ That it is a pity that more notice has not been taken,, by designers, of defects which carne to light, in war service, for there were a lot of meful.lessonS to be learned that have been completely disregarded.
. When a haulage itractor of Cheam Changed over from petrol to steam, And was asked, "Does it pay? ' He replied, " I can'tisay; But she runs like a beautiful dream!" Of petrelectrics.• Of trackless wastes (1).
That to and fro make one.
Rumours of Ford furbishings.
Of the long reign of summer.
M.E.M.—Motor Electrical Manual.
"Where there's a bill, there's a weigh." That infants are up in arms in the buses. Of petrol as the moving spirit of the age. That gas producers are not gasp reducers. Of the Panhard as a "hard-pan proposition."
" Do Clearing Houses Cut Rates? " A clear-cut question.
Of bodies : tipping, convertible, handsome, local and—dead.
That every Britisher ought to be interested in fleet efficiency..
Of disappointment at the " slacking " behaviour of parallel-splined shafts..
That the Ford " stands alone" because the rest won't (or can't) come near it.
That you can have everything ship-shape even if you haven't a streamline body.
Of drivers who treble their wages on long-distance motor coach tours.
That hotel charges form the chief item of expenditure on long-distance motor coach trips.
That, in spite of the ideal weather conditions during the past summer, the long-distance coach tour has not proved so popular as in 1920. .