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Of a' gust holiday weather.
Some brakes at some cross-roads.
That some hoods are hideous, others hidden. That a " bendable" chassis is often defendable.
That "our driver and mechanic readers " are Ingenious.
Of no motor coach named the Standby, yet of many that are.
That large scores are appreciated in sports but not in cylinders.
That the Jubilee hose-clips cannot be used as sock suspenders.
That other countries' roads may be up too, but they're not up to England's.
That loose gudgeon pins make grooves in cylinders and holes in pockets.
That too good seating is more than a possibility in bus and coach practice.
Of those wilt) consider that "break failure" should be a punishable offence.
That to or for the sea, as well as by, with or from the sea, is 'usually best done in a motor coach.
That the Mersey Tunnel Bill may soon go through, but it will be years before we may go through the tunnel.
Some wag asking if the tunnelling has to be sanctioned by the burrow council.'
That Shell-Mex pump service has its colour problem,.and it will be interesting to see whether white or yellow eventually comes out on top.
That traffic blocks in the streets are our problem, but America thinks rubber blocks in buildings may solve her traffic problem, by lessening vibration.
That petrol may before many years go by be blended and sold to compression-ratio specifications, and that higher mileage efficiency lies that way.
That the Power Petrol Co.'s spirit from its extensive Cross-system cracking plant at Grain (Kent) is very high, and consistently so in the anti-detonation scale. .
That, although California now averages one road motor per three persons of its whole population (man, woman or child), it also leads all the States in motorbus development.
That "For England, home and beauty" may be an excellent motto, but where main road bridges are concerned the needs of the first • two should be the chief consideration. That not all cylinders are round. That a locked wheel is a bad brake.
That one good brake deserves a partner:' That when your cylinders score, you don't.
Of holiday airs and airings very evident in motor coaches.
That when production costs rise high export figures fall low.
That Golders Green thinks trams are obsolete, Congratulations !
That if taxi fares don't come down, two-seater cabs will come out.
Of " pay-what-you-can " fares on some motorbus routes in the country.
Of some vehicle owners who don't know what depreciation means—but they will in time.
That running repairs too often mean only those without which running peremptorily stops.
Of very large numbers of provincial bus owners who still issue no tickets in exchange for fares.
That the main thing about any chassis is its sale, and that absence of this gets the wind up.
That Col. Warwick Wright recently arranged some Fageol coach demonstrations over the Border.
That they're all agog in the Highlands as to the extent of this season's growth of road motoring for the million there.
Of misguided efforts to combine rural-council and private-car interests in an attack upon motorbus and other commercial road traffic.
That only an occasional no a day is now taken in any holiday area, even during a carnival week, by any hard-worked char-A-banes on short-distance trip work.
That, despite L.M.S. abjuration on the fore, bottom and top edges of the telephone directory for the Metropolitan area, the best way to visit customers is by road.