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27th April 1911, Page 3
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

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That it might not be a had plan to offer Coronation-time bonuses to Metropolitan drivers and conductors.

That somebody in Rome with money to spa re has paid :V.500 each for five 1906-type London-owned Buessings.

That Brans taximeter secured useful publicity during the giving of evidence before the Taxicab Committee last week.

That many disconsolate folk are trotting round seeking motor chars-h-bancs, and thatthey are positively rude when given the I-told-you-so rebuke.

That the Prevention of Corruption Act has done very little towards the abolition of the tipping which litany chauffeurs demand from local agents.

Thal. entries are rolling in for the Coronation Motor Parade, and that the support for the " team ." section will be ahead of last year's nine sets of six.

That Sir Edward Henry was personally much interested in the views advanced by yesterday's C.M.U.A. deputation on the subject of keeping slowmoving traffic to the left.

Thatthe first orders for C.M.U.A. badges came from Waring and Gillow, Ltd., the Eastern Motor Wagon Co., Ltd., and the Bournemouth and Poole Electricity Supply Works, Ltd.

That Captain Dumble is admitted to be one of the comparatively-few soldier administrators who have seccessfully combined the essentials of military discipline with those of commercial decentralization.

That any newcomers into the rough and tumble of London's motorbus world, no matter how strong their backing may prove to be, will find their work pretty hard if they hope to get level with the organization which includes Duff and Dutiable.

That the Wood-Milne, wire-woven, steel-rubber, non-tear, unshaven-chin-tread, Preston-made, Mac beth-handled solid tires, whilst calculated to steady the vehicles to which they are fitted, will probably cause a bit of a shake-up in the tire trade.

That Mr. A. C. Church, the acting if unpaid head of the L.G.O.C. horse branch, who inherits many of his father's excellent. personal qualities, has in a sense become, since his elevation last yea u to a seat on the board of directors, a high-church dignitary.

That the Daimler group and its associates reckon to float a big new motorbus company, for London, within the next few weeks, that the proposed company will,

if duly promoted, use " petrol-electric vehicles, and that the authorized capital will be not less than £1,000,000.

That, on its re-commitment next week to the care of the C.M.U.A. by the present holder, the Eastern Motor Wagon CO., Ltd.,THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR challenge cup will find a four-weeks resting-place, pending its fresh award on Whit-Monday, in the smoking room of the Royal Automobile Club.

That Mayfair will come into its own this year.

That a fondness for horses still lingers at Tillings. * That "t' Coop-tie" brought out the pirate buses in fleets.

That, generally speaking, the L.G.O.C. dinner was a success.

That the laying of New-gate's new asphalt is a nuisance.

That anybody who knows him would not call Frank Searle surly.

That fewer than 200 L.G.O.C. horse omnibuses remain in temporary service.

Thal, the name of a well-known London traffic authority is not Peatey the Pointer.

That Kensington Borough Council is disgracing itself by laying waterbound macadam.

That intending new members of the C.M.U.A. should send in their application forms and cheques.

That London 31otoreab owners are not inclined to consider their relationship with their drivers as a matter that is 8.111) haler.

That lookers-on now merely see the best types of London motorbuses, whereas a few years ago they both heard and saw them—chiefly the former.

That the bon mot at the L.G.O.C. dinner was made by Mr. Lulham Pound, when he said he hoped that the B. would remain on the company's bonnets and not in them.

That London taxicabbies are really in a blue funk about the possible loss of those " negligible " tips on 8d. fares and the probable future exact treatment of t he " occasional " extras.

That there is no truth in the rumour that the statue, which is at present hidden by hoardings, in front of the Continental Tyre Co.'s new mansion in Brompton Road, is of Mr. Paul Brodtmann.

That Clayton and Co. (Huddersfield), Ltd., has arranged with the Western Ironworks, Lancaster Road,' W., for the establishment in part of those premises of a well-equip'ped London depot and stores.

That a big percentage of old and staunch L.G.O.C. shareholders consider that they have an absolute right to a 10-per-eent, dividend this year, and that they will kick up no end of a fuss if they do not get it.

That the engineer of a large cab company casts all scrap white-metal into ingots on which the words "Stolen from the — Cab Co." appear moulded as a telling piece of advisory information for the protection of receivers.

That bulls of L.G.O.C. stock were caught by the new-company factor, plus the fact that no new buying public came along immediately after Faster, but that there is a big inside school which still adheres to its belief in gl50 by July.


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