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The railways barracking.
That flexible wings have a future.
That not only imagination can run riot.
That Ford's pieceworkmanship is no joke.
Of many things a little brighter industrially.
" A wonderful October, if not up to that of 1921."
That mechanical road transport keeps doing its bit.
That the silence campaign might well include trams.
" When will Piccadilly welcome the six-wheeler bus?"
That most motorbuses have a deep end at the weekend.
That discussions of London's traffic problems lead nowhere.
That it is wise not to pass -in white line areas in Essex.
Less rattle when milk is conveyed in bulk instead of in cans.
That the cracking of hire-purchase is feared in America.
Of rigid-frame six-wheeler expectations shot up at Aldershot.
That traffic congestion in New York is as bad as it is in London.
Of the driver's mentality being more important than his rear-view mirror.
That the railways are really alarmed at their passenger slide motorbuswards.
That the proposal for a St. Paul's bridge across the Thames already has a lot across it.
That there'll be more hoots and toots than usual around Olympia from the 22nd to the 30th inst.
That a passenger's luggage is "whatever a man takes with him for his personal use or convenience."
That October 22-30 will be the time to see the leading "lights" of the motor world—in short, the Olympians.
Advice to heavies: "Don't cross your bridges before you come to them, but be sure you can before you do."
That traffic congestionsin Worcester has been greater than ever this year, trams providing the stumblingblock.
That the Treasury has in hand numerous drafts in respect of the 1927 Budget, and a petrol tax is in one of them.
That some of Harrods' electric vans have been on the road for 13 years and, like " Charley's Aunt," are still running.
That it is imperative that an end be made to the long-drawn-out delay in getting the 20 m.p.h. axle weight for buses settled if design is to proceed. Of record orders secured by Leyland% That the record is 117 vehicles ordered in one week and a total of 319 for five weeks.
That it's been harder to get high-tensile steel lately.
That petrol production is about to be price-cornered again.
That heavy motors are neither layer g of golden eggs nor mulch cows.
That but few die-hards now advocate solids for bus and coach work.
Of neither the last word nor the last seat about the latest bus chassis.
That the owner who uses his car only at week-ends is the real luxury man, . 0 That the A.A. is making private membership hay while the petrol-tax sun shines.
That Sentinel railcars have caught on in helping.railway companies to re-catch local passenger traffic.
That the rise and fall of total lubricating-oil consumption is the truest barometer of the nation's productive activities.
That more is to be heard of the McLeroth compartmented tube very soon and in the first place for military employment.
That there are some 2,500 new bus chassis on order ,at the moment from all-British works for home and export buyers combined.
That the higher the average number of seats per vehicle in any bus feet, other conditions being equal, the higher the average income per mile run.
That a Brotherhood of Motor Coach Drivers, follow; ing closely, the lines of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, has lately been organized in the United States.
That Mr. Thomas H. MacDonald, Sir Henry Maybury's opposite number in America, who is now in London, remains convinced that there is but a poor case for the privately constructed motorway.