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Hears—
That boots are soled and heeled, but tyres are soled and healed.
That mobile police stations are not for chasing criminals, though possibly for chastening them.
That, although Britannia has her foot in it, America has the bulge in the Belgian vehicle market.
Of growing alarm at the number of minor accidents in which vehicles seem to be involved these days.
That the situation is at its worst where roads are narrowest and obviously not capable of carrying safely to-day's traffic.
That bus conductors, being constantly exposed to infections, should in time develop immunity to most of them.,
That concealed ice patches persisting in a thaw can be more dangerous to drivers than an obviously glazed road.
That the increasing number of eight-wheelers used by the Road Haulage Executive suggests that overloading is becoming less common than it used to be.
That even in a wealthy city like New York, ratepayers cannot be expected to regard with equanimity a 67,000,000-dollar deficit on the bus, tram and underground systems, Not, but would like to, of a shortage of shortages.
Of 7-ton airfield crash tenders which can reach 60 m.p.h. remarkably quickly over rough ground.
Of a driver remarking on the many number-plates he has seen totally obscured by mud in recent dirty weather.
That he feels they should be made of some substance to which mud could not stick, and wants to know if such a material exists:
. That the average double-decker carries about 300,000passengers inside and 200,000 " upstairs " per annum.
Of Rotoflo shock absorbers on public-service 'vehicles which have been M regular use without trouble for some years.
Of someone getting excited through taking too literally the news of " experimental stretches" of rubber roads in the U.S.A.
That the order in which " The Commercial Motor" Is perused by many long-standing readers is "Sits. Vac.," "Men in the News," " One Hears," and "Passing Comments."