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That S.T.R. starts them reckoning.
That bilking of cab drivers is on the increase.
• Lots of comments from upper-deck passengers in the rain. • • That it would be a good idea if the authorities heard them.
That Nottingham and Birmingham are far ahead of London in the matter of covered double-deckers.
That Sunderland fire-brigade now uses petrel instead of oats.
That a pessimist is one who fits detachable wheels and rims.
That an optimist is one who leaves the spare wheel at home.
Of a six-wheeler enthusiast who describes trailers as parasites.
That seaside coach owners have found recent storms rather a blow.
That Messrs. Dilly and Daily seem to object to covered double-deck buses.
That if the General fleet of buses were all equipped with enclosed top decks, 120,000 passengers would benefit in wet weather, .
Of Municipal authorities holding up orders until after the forthcoming Olympia Show.
That some municipal authorities are inSisting on the use of pneumatic tyres on motor coaches.
That the cab drivers do not-care for the public to know of its right to select any cab on the rank.
That, as in this country, the railways in America are feeling the effect of intensive competition from • motor vehicles.
Of not few ei than six surprises in store for visitors to the Commercial Vehicle Show which will open at Olympia on October 29th.
That if the weather holds up many thousands of Ifourth-quarter licences for motor coaches will be taken out on Thursday next, October 1st, and surrendered at the end of that month in accordance with the new two-thirds " money-back " • regulations. • That whilst at last a topic of undisputed unity has been found by all classes of motor owners in respect of threats to raid the Road Fund for nonroad purposes, Mr. Churchill's apparent flight to safety in singing small about it should be viewed by all with -suspicious activity.
The song of the insolvent " Quarter day's upon us— Lord ha' mercy on us."
Said the man who took pride in his "bus "— " Some may vote spit-and-polish all fuss,' But can those who fight shy • Of the trouble say why The Paradeawards all Come to us," More bunkum than sense re traffic. Through having long years of reputation.
That one motorbus does not make a summer or winter service.
That the Irish Free State's status as a motoring country has much improved since 1922.
That there's still plenty of money in and out of alcohol if not yet from the power side of it.
That railway staffs are very keen just now to acquire road-transport knowledge and statistics.
• 0 That Sir Henry Maybury is at last preparing to hustle over the Motorbus Construction .Order, and others.
That the 21st anniversary of Mr.F. G. Brie. tow's secretarial connection with the C.M.U.A. is due in 1927.
That henzole will become scarcer and scarcer; as the low-temperature carbonization of coal secures adoption.
That more than a few leaders of motoring and its Press are approaching with stomachic qualms the period of -Show banquets.
That so soon as daylight saving is over for this year there will inevitably be another anti-dazzle • o4cry from cyclists and pedestrians.
That the vital problem for the nation Which is integral with any coal settlement is that of the home production of oils and motor spirits.
That if a 14-seater bus can usefully be given 150 miles a day in service, it can pay its way and its owner on (3.25d. a mile of revenue as the 'average.
That unemployment figures should be read with reference also to the hundreds of thousands of maidens and youths absorbed into industry during the past thre years on their leaving school.
That the only fair solution of rural highway-rate anomalies is for each country-rating authority to provide 2s. or 2e.. 3d. in the £ locally and to get all the rest conditionally from the Road Fund.
That if roads or the Road Fund are discussed at the Annual‘Congress of-National Unionist Associations at Brighton, to be heIti foam October 11th to 13th, the President. of the will be there and will keep his end up. .
That, If a really successful vaporizer for heavy oil came into anything like general use, theoil trade would see to it that the prices for the fuels it could take were fixed per gallon precisely in ratio with Its power effielency as compared with that obtained from petrol.
HERE'S ONE— Inquisitive little boy, fascinated by the driver's manipulation of the steering wheel : "What happens if you turn that wheel right round three times? " • Driver : "You cross your fingers and wish."