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That one needs plenty of wind to be pneumatic tyred.
That yet another safety-glass company is at the draft-prospectus stage.
That it's best to apply for new licences before the new year is at the most ten days old.
That the General Election threatens defection of trade for some and accretion for others.
Of suspicions at least that the Royal Commission • will endorse neither first nor last ditchers.
That in Scotland' they expect to look seriously at business again about Monday afternoon next.
That the last weelain May lathe lip for the great fight between private enterprise and Socialism.
That the " I" of the London and Home Counties Advisory Committee may seen be more in the public eye.
That by 1931 it will be the exception to be able to run any motor coach without some form of We licence.
That there's a more on to get motor coachesoff the public streets and into . their own depots or stations for picking-up and setting-down purposes generally.
That an early Easter, as this year, adds to the value of the 14-week quarter so thoughtfully provided by prevision in respect of the motor-licensing calendar.
That Scotland Yard has at last given its approval for• London taxicabs to be fitted with a glass screen to cover half the frame in front of the drivers seat.
That as one result, windscreen wipers may now be seen waving from side to side in front of taxidrivers.
That Socialistic production and transport in Russia have resulted in bringing down the average turnover of co-operative societies there from £15 10.s. -per annum per member pre-war to less than £7 now.
How a motor-coaching party, having collided with a small car in the dark, was shocked by being unable to find Its driver's second leg, • but a -local policeman relieved their anxiety by telling them he had lost it in the war. That Mr. Sidney Garcke Brightened in the New Year.
Rumours concerning a new Belo* Tariff Insurance 'Company.
That there's not too much gleeful. rubbing of hands in the rubber trade as yet.
Of drivers surprised to find a considerable coatbig of mud on a new concrete road.
Of more than one tramway committee ordering buses as the thin edge of the hedge.
That the Chancellor of the Exchequer wishes the road transport industry a happy pneu era.
That .Mr. Walter Wolsey, of Tillings and other bus activities, took the Christmas break quietly at Gullane; near North Berwick.
A lorry salesman stating that he had recently momentarily lost -his bearings when driving a 4-tea demonstration chassis through the clouds. •
That the story, is not quite so worthy of Hans Anderson as it may seem, 'the' lorry being at the highest point ofthe London-Maidstone oroad over Wrotham Hill during the occurrence.
That-a volunteer fire officer is complaining cf the tendency of certain small local authorities to try to make their own fire-fighting apparatus from old motor vehicles.
That one autherity is said to have bought an old Ford van hitherto used by a pig farmer and hopes to turn it into a light motor pumP.
That the opinion is expressed that some of the fire apparatus in volunteer brigades is a positive disgrace. .
That a notice placed near the gate of the Burroughs, Welcome chemical works at Dartford states that "In the interests of health and sanitation,' no horses are allowed inside these works."
That the above brings to one's notice an often overlooked point in favour of mechanical transport.
That although one would imagine that the practice is not generally recommended by the makers, the Halley '1D-type chassis, with an unloaded platform body,can get away in top from a standstill on the leVel without a shudder.