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ONE HEARS Of more Fuses for Edinburgh.

24th February 1920
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That frank disclosures of output will give the others Beans, That the weather is obviously no 'believer in spring suspension.

That it often pays to compromise before you standa.rdize.

" Wake up, England!" and let's show more of our own spirit."

That with increasing outputs, makers are beginning to hoist their sales. 0 That the road waved because the driver made tracks for the distillery.

That Harper Bean's have caught the American habit of actually disclosing output.

That the shortage of "the life-blood of the industry" cannot be treated in humorous vein.

That more street surfaces are " up " in our towns than has ever been the ease in living memory.

That Mr. A. L. Coventry Fell is employing a humorous optimist to advertise the L.-C:C. trams.

That our artist in his tramcar drawing is anachronens in sending Julius Geesar and Tilly of Bloomsbury on the road to ruin.

That a certain amount of cosIetizing would make the lorry look smart, besides being rust-proof and easier to keep clean.

Of a demobbed ambulance, evidently destined not to forget its former vocation, in the service of a butcher named Payne.

That advertisements and agents' recommendations are but as sounding ibrass and tinkling cymbals When. the chassis does not reach the mark of high quality.

The hope that the Institute of Transport will do more than is suggested by the initials of its first three council members—G(eddes),) A(shfield), and S(tanley).

That, if we are to believe the publicist for the L.C.C., we have only to double. the number of tramcars in London to make travelling in. the streets a, real nerve rest. That tubular spokes are in again.

" Motor hearses—Body snatchers."

Traction of gravity—A 20-ton lorry.

Optimistic assertions that "spring is here."

And pessimistic growls that it is only the belated piing of 1919. 0 That " shims " ought to be more fashionable. That tyre steel is not, so very prone to fatigue.

That differentiated teeth are. the corning vogue.

This History of the Ford : —Small beginnings, big ends.

Of delivery dates which are but stolen fruit of the ales Dept.

That you can't Piekfords: you must take 'ern as they come.

That the tighter the weld, the more does that industry open out.

That it was Driver Spooner who called a gudgeon pin a `.` pigeon gull" That there is little chance nowadays of overloading many one-and--a-half tanners.

Those Barrett jacks stand up exceptionally well for themselves when imposed upon.

That those Maudslay radiators look very well dressed now that they are buffed up.

That should Mars order lorries, a big boom in self-propelled canal boats is sure to follow.

That our iiewr amphibious associate The Motor Ship. will be a very welcome launch for high-seas service. 0 " I'm done to a turn ! " exclaimed the exhausted powerostarter. "And I'm turned to a dun!" sighed the dirty sparking plug porcelain.

That a driver of a Ford van, while describing a figure 8 in a London thoroughfare one recent skiddy day, was appropriately asked, "Hi, sir! .Where's your other skate? "

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Organisations: Institute of Transport
People: Julius Geesar, Payne
Locations: Edinburgh, London

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