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That new roads attract traffic.
Of the vogue of the bird's-eye view Of a modern version of the old stage coach.
That it might now be called the aviator's view.
Of a number of new coaches still on the Blocks.
Of lorries and coaches idle because of high taxation.
Of efforts to protect the interests of the small bus proprietor.
Of touring car components for light commercial vehicle chassis.
That railwaymen are being urged to call the railway the super-road.
That when it comes to stands for chars-h-bancs, Leeds leads—as usual.
That the investigation of alcoholic behaviour is not a pussy-foot campaign.
That a 10-ton railway truck could be bought before the war for just over £60.
That it costs a shilling a, day to hire a railway company's truck.
That few concerns are returning to the horse in spite of rumours to the contrary.
That what the railways want is not their own share of the roads, but other people's.
That what they did to the canals they cannot do to the roads—the former were not available to just anybody who bought a barge.
That Belfast is determined to outdo Dublin in the matter of commercial vehicle display at their respective shows.
Of certain liveliness from a commercial vehicle point of view in the Celestial Empire.
That "Doomed Tramways" sounds uncommonly like swearing ; that it is railing, anyway.
That it was nice of an L.C.C. Committee not to endeavour to prohibit certain new London General bus services on tramway routes.
That the railways have started a new campaign of sending selected representatives to motor-vehicle owners, with a view to showing them that they are running at a loss.
That they claim to have persuaded one firm to sell their wagons and to revert to the rail and that district representatives are, on the strength of this case, being urged to do likewise.
That the suggestion to employ motorbuses on rails is attracting a lot of attention from railway officials who are out to find something to "drive the rural bus services off the roads."
That the disclosure of the report of the 1864 inquiry into the railway companies' application for powers to run coastwise steamers was, at first, very disconcerting to road interests. Of important bus developments in London.
Of the possibility of trips from Soho to Sahara.
Of big road schemes for the Home Counties under way.
That large display ads, in broad Lancashire do not impress the Manchester man, whose lingo is not that of Owdham.
That London's chief marshal appears to be in demand in similar capacity, or as a judge, at a number of the projected provincial parades. --0-
That the provincial parade season shortly opens, Nottingham being on the 10th prox., but that one of the biggest will be the new one for N.W. Division in the Preston area—later in the year.
That some wonderful feats of carrying on are being performed in certain Northern shops subject to the lock-out, and that managers are again knocking their thumbs about.
Of increased interest, in the container method of transport, and that, for coal, a combination of bottom-trap carriers for rail wagons, lifting tackle at terminals and tip motor wagons seems likely best to cut out hand-shovelling.
That there is a lot of irritation over the operation of the B.M.A. in mulcting manufacturers in fines for breaches of the exhibition clause by customers of their agents, over whom the original members can exercise no sort of control whatever.
That no ordinary owner will consent to tie himself not to exhibit his machine if he wishes to—in the interests of his own business—which may be brewer, baker, or candlestick maker.