ONE HEARS Of a real dazzle-razzle for next winter.
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Of too-go-ahead drivers sad after the event.
Of anti-pink pills for non-aromatic petrols.
That Carmoloiding is becoming a big business.
Of the " threepenny-bit " wheels of promenade buses.
More medium-weight lorries are to be pneumaticked.
Of eye tests for drivers that do not necessarily test the sight.
That road maps are underdone in some respects, yet overdone in others.
That it always pays to read your policy—and then to understand it I That coach parking is a thorny problem for tradesmen and carriers.
That an optimist is one who hopes to obtain a dividend from a tramway company.
• That safety-first principles may yet permeate several types of road construction.
That more will be heard of overhead-arch bridges constructed by the famous Dorman-Long builders. ei• That a new convalescent home at Hythe owes its existence to the London Tram, Omnibus and Tube Benevolent Fund.
Of a suggestion that it should be made an offence if a driver neglects to engage low gear when descending steep hills.
That the Traffic Act is to restrict the hours for dust-collecting, as the Licensing Act already restricts the hours fer dust-laying.
That Mr. Shrapnell-Smith has promised to give an" all-in-the-dark " lecture, with demonstrations of dazzle mitigation, hi London, on the first Wednesday in October.
That a " crack " journeyman taxi-driver looks askance at taking out -a taxicab in London after itS fourth year, but that an owner-driver's superior care for his keeps it. fit and a good money-taker into the eighth.
That a motor tractor at work in a field three miles from our office in Manchester has proved an attraction to City men whose business has, owing to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, been hanging on silk threads.
That the likely consequences of Germany's growing production in oils and motor spirits from her enormous deposits of brown coal are the outside causes of inside nightmares for some wellinformed oil markets..
That high-speed motorbuses on pneumatic tyres when in competition over long routes with larger vehicles on solids are tending, by reason of the time saved on the journeys, to collect most of the travelling public who travel more than half Way. That springs sometimes don't.
That lack of oiling causes boiling.
That the trolley-bus breaks ground for the motorbus.
That it is a means to an end—and a beginning.
That up-to-date methods mean up-to-time deliveries.
That alcohol is apt to cause staggering, but not In engines.
That touting, without shouting, may yet by law be by-law flouting.
That few small owners have a proper appreciation of depreciation.
That the "Motor Repair Manual" can still claim the rank of a "best-seller."
That the -Strachan and Brown Deesido bus body is considered decidedly bonny.
That-,45 inches is an ell, but a 16-inch seat can feel like it after an hour or two.
That it is easier to recommend the abolition of a dangerous corner than to achieve it.
The admission that the owners of buildings in a corner-screening position seldom, of their own volition, suggest demolition. C- That the good driver should always look ahead, leaving retrospection to the conductor—and the mirror.
Of a discreet yet decent hustle on to pneumatics for more and more motorbuses by more and more proprietors.
That certain parts of the proceedings before the London Traffic Committee 'sitting in public were short and4unsweet.• Congratulations to two British firms, who are co-operatintr so as to supply oil casing to the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. at a lOwer rate than that quoted by a German Syndicate.