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Of the higher purchasing power of money.
Of h.p. as horse power and hire-purchase. However, that where there's a bill, there's a pay. That British vehicles, like boots, are built to last.
That an engine may overheat, but man drops the h.
That the better the road grip the greater the road resistance.
That it is hard lines -when a sale is lost through ugly bodywork.
That petrol is still fetching what it will get in more senses than one.
Still more of more Tank development mentioned here months ago.
That Soarer claims to be setting the fashion to the commeroial vehicle world.
Of tipupability as a new and very ugly char-h-bancs trade term for collapsable seats.
That there is no such thing as a two-cycle engine, two-stroke cycle being the correctappellation.
That most of the ladies in the Bristol advertisement must have been sisters—if not twins or even worse.
That it will take a long time to persuade the average farmer of the need to keep horse, cattle or tractor costs.
That Birmingham's railless trolley-buses and their overhead equipment should be ready in about two months.
That the municipalities are taking much pains to be mutually helpful in the matterztof railless bus installation.
That chains and decay is an unkind expression, because even a worm turns, and gear teeth lose their condition.
That as pneumatic-tyred heavy vehicles cause less Iliad wear than those running on solids, there should be differentiation in taxation.
• That oil is now being extracted from Australian shale deposits by a cheap and effective process, and that 100 gallons of crude oil per ton is being obtained by a dry distillation process in New South Wales.
• That the University of Michigan is now holding courses in highway transport for its students. The most popular song amongst ex-students is now said to commence as follows:— I was not born.in Michigan, But I wish, and wish again, That I could go back, to that place where I wasn't born. Of Tank tactics.
Of " Admiral" Ford.
That we now know the source from which Henry secures his raw material.
Or drivers and "splendid isolation."
From a driver, that his mates are not as infectious as all that.
Of a marked decrease in traffic accidents.
Of the bus conductor as a kindly philosopher. That the secret of fare fixing is to fix a. fair fare.
Of special buses for shoppers, but of no special buyers for buses.
That Mr. John Dennis of the Guildford concern has been madel a J.P.
Of more commercial vehicle manufacturers actually making trolley-bus chassis.
That anomalies in the lighting-up time are causing drivers much inconvenience.
That every motor coach should be equipped with an effective fire extinguisher.
Talk about six wheels wherever designers and engineers may have gathered together.
That the French subvention trials constitute a strong case for the military multi-wheeler.
Of a successful effort on the part of some municipal authorities to.obtain petrol at a cheaper rate.
Of a director of a steam wagon company who has sold his Hispano Suiza, because it was not fast enozgh.
That the camel has "got the bird," in the Canary Islands, and the mule the hump. But the motor lorry has the bananas.
That Leo Harris has improved wonderfully in health since he left the motor trade and went in for selling his new speciality.
Of gluts of fish rotting at the seaports owing to high railway rates—and that road transport should be given a bigger chance to ease the congestion.
That the British Empire Exhibition is likely to be postponed till 1924. That fact will not, however, prevent certain politicians from making a perfect exhibition of the British Empire prior to that date.