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That Garner's works are busier than ever.
From a layman, that " pop " goes the Diesel.
That slowing down in time saves many a fine.
That second-quarter licensing has beaten all records.
That the coach takes the "curse" out of "excursion."
That the very fixedness of railway tracks will he their own undoing.
Of it being on the cards that every chassis will soon carry its own jacks.
Of new 32-seaters with ,four-cylindered engines now on the drawing boards.
That the public is finding out that the railways "ain't again' to reign no more."
That "When do the balloons go on?" is the modern version of "When does the balloon go up?"
That the Raleigh van chassis, as a tricycle, climbed well in the recent London-Land's End Trial.
That it is up to the road transport industry to " park " its disagreements and not give the railways a walk-over.
That "unity," " fraternity " and " cohesion " are words to conjure with and may even be synonymous with "stability."
That in one industrial centre the operation of the much-discussed "means test" has reduced the weekly receipts of the municipal bus undertaking by approximately i2 per vehicle.
Much of the need for stronger cohesion.
Too many small voices instead of a mighty one. • Of a struggle to find buses for the Liverpool services. 0 Of a struggle to find homes for old and retired tramcars.
That the Pybus Committee has nearly come un stuck. 0 That two reports from Mr. Pybus's Committee are practically assured.
That wet holidays turn hikers and bikers into motor-coach hikers.
That the 1932 coaching season will be more profitable than was 1931.
That what the Ministry is anxious to see are national associations.
That road transport is capable of dispelling still more of the 1931 business depression.
Of longer and longer reinforced concrete arches ensured by means of electric welding.
That applications for new road service licences are being entered in considerable numbers.
That the Commissioners' attitude towards them is now far from forbidding.
That oil is not gold that glitters but it means a Jot of money all the same.
That more is to be heard of the fact that more labour per ton of goods is employed in road trans port than by rail. 0 That in the past few weeks Mr. 0. C. Power has received many tributes for his attitude against undue protection for municipal bus services.
That the profits on and out of commercial motors are but a fraction of the wealth they create for others.