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'Is there an apex to the use of the road?"
That the petrol tax may extend self-starting. Less of petrol fire S caused by static electricity: That the railway ideal is not all road traffic.
That the Railways Bills cover plodding and glotting.
That there will scon be more Liona on the road than in the wilds.
That the factor "capacity for load" is almost as important as "strength for load."
Tha'. the opportunity for obtaining our 2s. 6d. Ford manuals at 1s, each should not be missed.
That Mr. Macmillan has been both living and dying to cross-examine the C.M.U.A. president.
That advertising a long-distance service is inadvisable when only a third of the coaches is available.
That the results are dissatisfied passengers and overworked drivers.
Of one instance where a driver is constantly being asked to work 18 hours per "day."
That equal terms and conditions on the road will be impossible with railway-owned vehicles there, seeing that no existing haulier owns a railway and 'none can keep in business except out of earnings on the road.
That Mr. W. E. Redfern, for many years associated with John Marston, ,Ltd., Wolverhampton, :has lately been appointed transport manager to the firm of Chamberlain, King and Jones, Ltd., Union Street, Birmingham.
That the live load talks if badly treated.
: That bad roads may .encourage the suspension designer, but they have a discouraging effect on almost everyone else. Of early coaching parties routed by midges.
Inquiries as to how average ton-mileage per gallon of petrol varies—and why?
Of drivers dangerously blinded at a level-crossing by wind-driven smoke from a rubbish fire beside the line.
That motor coach parties do not like meals at inns where the windows are hermetically sealed—mine host, please note That when vans skip on narrow country roads they should draw in well to the grass for their 01.1/11 sakes as well as others
That of two ways out of a Sussex town one is freshly tarred from side to side and the other has half its width torn up for draining works.
That much strong language is heard in that town from natives and foreigners" alike.
That there is no chance, now, for the Railways Bills to _become law—if the preamble is duly passed =earlier than during the intended autumn session.
That the legal limit of 12 m.p.h. for motor coaches weighing above two tons unladen may very soon go up to 20 m.p.h, by an Order of the Minister of Transport—and none too SOM.
That it is both premature. and unfair for Mr. Churchill to talk about any kind of profiteering by omnibus proprietors by means of raised fares until the net-loss effects of the petrol tax emerge a year or So from now.
That owners who, are now paying. the flat-rate petrol tax may get a shock if they work out on the hp. basis how much they pay per h.p. more, than the private owner—of whose only 13s. 4d. goes into the Road Fund.
• Of the. Scot's breeches pocket as the dark clout with the siller lining..
That the overcrowding of taxicabs is coming under the notice of some provincial authorities.