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Of a Belfast-Edinburgh coach service --in 1831.
That many a .modern tractor looks attractive whilst being tractive.
That French vehicles and trailers are particularly well lighted at night.
That some operators suspect that an area scheme for East Anglia is being hatched.
That the finish on some makes of commercial vehicle is superior to that on many new private ears.
In that connection that some bodybuilding employees need to go to a finishing school.
Of an irresistible demand for 30-ft. four-wheeled buses meeting an immovable Minister of Transport. Of hauliers taken in, taken over and gone under.
Of spilt milk seeping through truck floors and corroding silencers.
Of aluminium panels for bodywork anodized and dyed in Many colours. • That too many cyclists (and motorists) are inclined to look only left when they pap out of a side road.
That Coras lompair Eireann, the Irish Republic's nationalized transport concern, is now turning out three single-deck bus bodies a week at Inchicore.
From Mr. A. G. Marsden, of the Central Transport Consultative Committee, that if the railways, like the Services, are strategically essential to the Nation, then the Nation should pay for them.
That a 3s. a week profit, like fine words, butters no parsnips.
Of a 45-ft. articulated travelling post office in the United States.
That all this forced " volunteering " savours of Nazi methods.
That strikes over. miners' coal. may leave 'private consumers minus coal.
That, like other nationalized bodies, the B.T.C. is in danger of carrying too many " passengers."
That the real rush for jobs under the will start if the Socialist Goveenment be re-elected.