ONE HEARS
Page 3
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
Rusty springs protesting.
That some buses can pass some cars.
Of cutting remarks as well as fares.
The query—are fare cuts fair?
That it pays to advertise with vehicles.
That the claims of thick oil are wearing thin.
Of paraffin wax as the bugbear of the heavy-oil users.
That 20 buses cost the same as a mile of tram track.
That the sun in Whitsun was quite noticeable this year.
That he who pay' s the piper sometimes regulates tile design.
A little too much of the voices of some coach passengers.
Of some people who think a "one-man bus" is a motorcycle.
That some buses found the Epsom mud a little too affectionate.
Sounds which indicate a whole hive of bees under some bonnets.
That some people can endure a loss of 2d. per mile for 20 years.
" 'Tis in Trafalgar Square the London Traffic Committee weighs its lay."
That what London taxi-drivers fear most is a new initial fare of less than 1s.
That the small haulier has to give a lot of thought to dodging capital punishment.
That steam vehicles have no complaints as to the supply of water in Manchester. It rains there.
That Ashton-under-Lyne motor coach owners are buzzing against the bus trips organized by the Tramways Committee.
That the railways' escape from much local rating is again to occupy the close attention of all the rating authorities.
That it's going to be a far farther bitter cry to agreed legislation on motoring castigation than anything that's been done before.
That a census that a 67-seater in a given period recently made in America shows bus carries as many passengers as 40 motorcars. Of a further spread of the red bus.
That an tyre prices should be as they wear. That the man in charge does not always get the charges.
Of a very different Southern Railway in the making.
That ' there's nothing like leather, even for bearino.s.
Of a spring in rubber, but that it will not do to overstretch it.
Of a conspiracy of silence about the h.p. tax on private cars.
That the A.E.C. doesn't mind having 100 trolleybuses Shanghaied.
That the best business motto is—" There's no time like now o'clock."
That pneumatics for Metropolitan buses are at last an accomplished fact.
From dozens of readers who have been roused to an appreciation of id. a day.
That the cause of extra wear with aluminium pistons is their property of breaking oil films.
That "exceeding the legal limit" is by no means synonymous with "driving to the public danger."
That alcohol may penetrate pyroxylin enameN, but that soap, oil tar, acid and salt have no effect.
That in motorbus working big mileage which produces no contribution to overheads is either policy or waste.
That in road transport as in everything else the past only counts when the reaping present knows and owns its sponsors.
That the question of whether the Ford reverse forms an effective brake was settled by drivers when the Ford first appeared.
That the loose coupling-up of so many passenger coaches in numerous trains on the Southern Railway calls for remedy if comfort of travelling by that line is to equal that by alternative road services.
Of numerous motor-coach parties In course of arrangements to go to the Aldershot Command Searchlight Tattoo, which will take place each evening (9.30 p.m. to 11.15 p.m.), from June 16th to 20th, at Aldershot, in aid of Military Charities, and that the King and Queen will be there on one of the nights.