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That this should be a good haul year for every haulier.
The private owner's plea that a car can carry all the purchases, bulky and otherwise, made in a day's shopping.
That no bus could accommodate those of even one passenger unless it had a special luggage boot. Still of many who think that most of our traffic problems could be solved by a State Road Lottery.
The suggestion that the new fog-piercing, yellowlight lamp being tried out at Camberwell should be called the Camberwell Beauty.
That in the centre of New York.„ the average speed of vehicles is 6 m.p.h., compared with the 11 m.p.h. claimed for central London.
That the Government are at last sitting up and taking notice of the need for better roads but a lot depends on their intentions re "coughing up."
That lead poisoning has occurred as a result of burning old lead-battery cases and several children have been ill through using them as domestic fuel.
Of a reader who found it trying when he encountered eight side-to-side and several halfway-across trenches in less than-a quarter of a mile of road.
That, although "filled in," these were turning into water troughs.
That in opposing free transport for schoolchildren Cllr. J. J. Hunter told Scarborough R.D.C., "We are in danger of creating a mould out of which we might get people with big heads and spindly legs."
That the borough engineer's department of Scarbordugh, after experimenting for months, has found that the larger the roundabout the more smoothly the traffic moves.