One Hears

21st September 1956, Page 87

21st September 1956

Page 87

Page 87, 21st September 1956 — One Hears

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That this Commercial Motor Show is the largest ever staged in Britain, and this Show issue of The Commercial Motor beats all previous records for similar productions.

Concerning the new safety-in-transit signs, a suggestion that a " pin-up " picture would do more to attract attention towards keeping a case right side up than the stencil of a woman with a grecian urn.

That Jamaican conductors often set a good example in politeness.

That good salvage equipment might mean the removal of a garage's financial embarrassment.

That arguments with some governments come under the heading of cross questions and crooked answers.

Someone complaining that there is more "your money or your life" activity on the highways today than ever there was in the past.

That, possibly, this is because modern highwaymen have more " horses " than Black Bess to make good their escapes. That the Show is now steadily increasing its international representation, which was at on time,

between the wars, very large. s

Of a reader's wife remarking, after looking at drawings of an engine in section, that she'd never feel quite happy in a bus now that she knew there was "such a 'chamber of horrors' under the floorboards."

That the modern mobile shop is the direct descendant of the pedlar and the cheapjack.

That, as a comment on this, one might as well say that our modern orchestras are descendants of the oneman band.

That men may like attractive " clippies " but pretty passengers prefer the male• Df the species.

That to drive death off the roatis should be the aim of all who drive, ride, cycle, or walk on them.

That the credit squeeze tends to weaken the pioneering spirit, although other 'squeezes may encourage it.