ONE HEARS
Page 3
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
Of pirouetting pirates.
That electric lorries are to be produced at Otley.
That the L.G.O.C. may have to look to its guns.
Of many additions to the ranks of the haulage contractors.
That the " 9" in char-b.,-bancs is as elusive as the apostrophe.
Of several new types to be exhibited at Cardiff— but more anon.
That bad roads are preventing the extension of many bus services. • Of the early flotation of a large London taxicab operating company.
That South Wales will hear quite a lot about commercial motors in June next.
That Manchester says it costs 30s. a day for horse cartage of coke, or about 2s. 3d. per ton mile.
That the Belfast steamer strike seriously hindered exhibits for the Royal Ulster Show going over from England.
That importers of American vehicles-did not get much change out of Sir Auckland Geddes last Thursday.
That Manchester Corporation, in making a clean sweep of its horse street-sweepers, will make a cleaner sweep of its streets.
That the Firestone Tyre figures of 50,000 acres of floor space for 15,000 employees at any rate dispose of any charge of overcrowding. Aerial rates are up in the air.
21,300 per ton per 1000 miles by air!.
That Lancashire's roads are in. very good order !considering.
That the man who can control the weather can control the world.
That competition by load rating is not good for the industry as a whole.
That " A Zenith carburetter is fitted, and it has a higher gear than standard " I ! !
That hundreds of new chars-à-banes are getting ready for August and the Peace Joy-Time.
That Yineys, the well-known hauliers of Preston, are specialists in the moving of huge flying boats and bombers.
That Bolton's animosity is chiefly due to the preponderating use that is made of her roads by " foreign" vehicles.
That cost and weather uncertainty are the two factors which will put a very severe limit on the possibilities of commercial aviation.
That some county councils would willingly copy Liverpool laissez-faire policy in the matter of axle weights, if it weren't for the boroughs in between.
That Mr. T. E. Harrison, late Waring and Gillow's M.T. manager, and recently in the M. of M. Contracts Dept., has been transferred to the Surplus Vehicle Disposal Authorities, and is busy keeping things straight at the Agricultural Hall.