One Hears
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That B.R.S. want to sell their cake and keep it.
Of an old reader complaining of the flimsiness of modern bui tickets.
That 50 years ago some railway excursion tickets were printed on thin paper and were difficult to preserve to the end of a journey when they had been "snipped" several times.
That during the Automobile Association's "Guards to Hastings" operation, so many mayors arrived at the saluting base that one Pressman was heard to remark, "People will think this is a horse show! " A suggestion that we might have said the Colt and Cob were foaled in 1930 and the Bantam hatched in 1932.
From America, that steam propulsion for road vehicles was urged as the solution to the threatening fuel shortage of 1920.
That plumbing with pipes made of plastics has become feasible for cold-water systems, but not yet for dealing with the hot.
From a reader that although the " C.M. " is celebrating its 50th anniversary, it still has the vitality of a bright young thing.
That usefulness is conducive to youthfulness.
An old reader sighing nostalgically over memories of the green electric buses that used to "glide through Kensington somewhere about 1908."
That if re-encountered nowadays they might not measure up so well against modern standards of comfort.
That what struck one reader most, when comparing the old and modern vehicles in our Jubilee issue, was the disregard shown in the past for the comfort of the driver.
Someone reminding us that in 1906, following a serious motorbus accident, the coroner said "We are strongly of opinion that this type of vehicle is unsuitable for use on country roads."
That Mr. Wilfrid Andrews hit the nail on the head when he called our road problem "a national crisis."
Of hopes that the Road Campaign Council will knock nails into the problem's coffin.