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That the railways are trying to prove that they miss something they never had.
That controllable shock absorbers for passenger vehicles are the next logical step.
That the car driver who boasts about climbing Porlock just hates to be reminded that buses go up it.
That the Llama from Lancashire is handsome, whereas its four-legged relative is usually the reverse.
Prophecies that the trade improvement will have progressed so far by next November as to ensure good business at the Commercial Motor Show.
That the laws of industrial survival must be complementary to those governing its Mortality.
That country bus users resent what seems an unnecessary curtailment of services for the winter.
That 99 may be the magic figures in the Yo-Yo world, but the railway companies just loathe 66.
That latex rubber and sunlight don't get on too well together, hut that when the rubber is covered it's splendid. Complaints of increasing "flimsiness" of petrol cans, with consequent waste and danger from leakage in store.
That our young drivers, in their snug cabs, cannot realize in what uncomfortable conditions their predecessors had to do their jobs.
That the scumming up of the case against the Salter Report recommendations is " injurious to trade," •and there could be no more serious indict ment. 0 That if the double-saloon bus did put the last nail in the coffin of many a railway and tramway service, its double-crossing by the Salter Conference is not a fair method of retaliation.
Of people who travel on the Q bus on Route 11 merely as a matter of interest.
Someone saying that " compulsory " is one of the most offensive words in our language.
That wise pruning entourages growth, but indiscriminate lopping of branches may destroy the tree.
That agricultural depression is becoming increasingly reflected in receipts per mile on country bus routes.