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Anticipations of a busy sunimer.
That Nicholson's chat on bulbs was quite seasonable.
That it is better to let them go on talking, it keeps them quiet.
That Cheltenham-London, via Oxford, is quite a, popular coach journey.
That the percentage of new coaches this year will be comparatively small.
That, private hire buses are increasing in popularity all over the country.
Of bus drivers having a busman's holiday looking over Chiswick overhaul works.
—0 That it is very easy to talk to an American motor salesman; you only have to listen.
That it's "axe and ye shall receive—no blessing" in the case of Sir Eric Geddes's Committee.
That the practice of converting passenger vehicles to goods uses during the winter is fast dying.
That tyre pump makers are not looking forward to the production of a compressed. air-driven lorry or car.
'That the railway is losing the more valuable classes of traffic, whilst the motor coach often has the more voluble classes.
That film display for propaganda. work is extending. Allen Liversidge demonstrating their welding process will be the next.
That Henry Butt's name will go down to posterity in the law records, for "Weston-super-Mare U.D.O. v. Butt" is now the leading case.
That, owing to the fall in wages of farm boys and the reduced price of horses, the tractor business is likely to experience a bit of a set-back..
That this is only one instance of the pendulum swinging the wrong way. Who was it bought one liordred of sets of harness the other day?
That the Editor has sat through the different hearings of the Extraordinary Traffic case, and is only with great difficulty being restrained from writing a book on the subject.
And, by the way, that he saw extremely little of other technical. Pressmen throughout the whole of the proceedings.
That many thousands of pounds have been saved to the transport industry over averted 'actions for extraordinary damage during the past Ave years, and that some of it must go in paying the costs of the Butt ease.
That Weston-super-Mare U.D.C. has saved the £10,000 which has been gradually put aside in respect of its action, and that the biggest ratepayers—Henry Butt and Co:, Ltd.—are, therefore, substantial gainers by thei-r own loss. Of a mystery bus.
Of London taxicab drivers caught "napping."
Of resting motor coaches that Will be astir by Easter.
That motor coach fares will not be much lower during the 1922 season.
That the driver of a " super-kreemy " van should never be short of a nut.
Also that almost any passer-by would be willing , to bolt it for him.
. That the manufacturers have made good terms with the railway group.
Of coaches on pneumatics which are almost as cheap to-run as taxicabs.
Of a 94-seater double-deck bus body which is to be built by a South Coast company.
That Bristol cabbies' waiting charge is to be " for 31 minutes," and that it might have been more simply expressed as Od. for 5 =auks.
The, question asked as to whether "Ole Bill," the Londou bus with a wonderful war record, will ever be the same again after it has undergone a Chiswick overhaul.
That the body mar be there, but the spirit will move, a different set of organs.
That the scenery on either side of the G.W. Railway east of Reading does not change sufficiently to afford much consolation to the manufacturing side of the industry.
That the overhauling methods employed inthe L.G.O.C. ;works at Chiswick are a striking -testimony to the interchangeability of the component parts of their bus chassis.
That in 1929 railway companies spent 260,88i in operating road-borne traffic, which produced a revenue of 228,481—showing a loss, therefore, of £32,403 on the transaction.
That the. railway cannot expect to have the monopoly • of " keep off the grass" notices. •Especially when the grass has taken time and trouble to grow and haymaking is in sight.
That it is always worth while to do a little experimenting with carburation—provided you :know how to do it. An extra mile per gallon soon pays for .tho cost of a new carburetter.