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2nd November 1926
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Of retrenchment not yet entrenched.

That long motorbuses still beat short ones.

Of active shirkers who do no share of any real work.

Of a tendency still to suggest that any old black stuff is coal.

Of great preparation for petrol taxation—as an extra! 0 That Empire has become the password as well as the buyword.

That not everything bad is slung out as quickly as it might be.

• That commercial motoring, can be neither railed in nor ruled out. 0 That a London cat needs a tenth life to survive the crossing of a one-way street.

That the Empire Industries Association is keen on all road and land transport developments.

Someone complaining that his food is undercooked because the mining industry is over-Cooked.

That Lord Lee wants to reach the clearing-up stage of the Royal Commission . on London's Cross-river Traffic.

That automatic purifiers for diluted crankcase oil may shortly be found in use elsewhere than on some Packards. C> A Worcester citizen's remark : "After all the noise about the coming of trolley vehicles, How long, 0 Lord, how long! ' " 0 That an owner can join the C.M.U.A. for a year for what he pays one of his drivers for half a week, and that it's too cheap.

That people who rush to the south of France each November for the winter are seldom users in Great Britain of motorbuses.

Of this year's motorbus and motor coach holidays as a rest cure as well as a rescuer from ill-health for many tired city workers.

That few operators get precisely uniform results from any brand of petrol over a period of six months, and that it's not always the fault of the petrol.

That the Southdown bus route (new this summer) from Brighton to Chelwoocl Gate affords passengers a view of some of the most beantiful country in Sussex.

That the winding-np of proposals for certain new motorbus undertakings in the provinces has eased the minds of not a few older owners who had got the wind up. 0 That Mr. Ernest Berin and the Transport Workers' Union know a little more now about the complexities of running motorbuses than they did when they first set out to finance cooperative services at Folkestone. Of the hearse as a one-passenger coach.

The advice to British makers—Go thou and do wise That America lays herself out to cath for Dominion needs. _ 0 Of those who think that the Budget always hits below the belt.

That a draughty bus may not kill passengers, but it does kill custom.

That next week's issue is the equivalent of a contmercial vehicle show.

Some motorists boasting of climbing hills whieh are on regular coach routes.

Of attempts to slip a velvet glove on the iron hand of Ulster's new Motor Bill.

Of nobody who has tried all the clever substitutes for coal suggested by the dailies.

That the trolley bus is the thin end of the wedge that is being driven into tramway systems.

That whatever may be up the Morris sleeve for 1927 bus and van chassis, it's not a sleeve-valve.

That oil is the life of the vehicle and it is. a pity that the life is so often allowed to ebb away on the high road. 0 That despite the careful observations made by astronomers last week no evidences of the presence of motor traffic were detected on Mars.

That, Owing to the obvious signs of water-shortage, steam-wagon agents have abandoned hope of doing business with the planet either by wireless or :vire pulling. 0 A query as to what has become of our "British nerve" when the sight of a taxi collision causes two men to faint and a boy to have a fit.

From the Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Bruce, that Britain supplies only a little over one-tenth of the motor vehicles imported by Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.


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