One Hears
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That the dictators are now Hitler, Mussolini—and the railways.
That Johannesburg's Sunbeam-B.T.H. trolleybuses are expected partly to solve the car-parking problem.
With approval, of Dumbarton C.C. turning down a scheme for the construction of a by-pass through a housing site and proposing an alternative route.
That everyone is accusing the others of " giving information to the Press."
Of far too many instances of head-on collisions through passing at blind spots.
• Ofpolice divisional antagonism that does little to ease traffic congestion at busy boundary junctions.
Of a reader who thought A Club for Transport Workers" " was some new threat from the railways.
That this year. London Transport has ordered 650 A.E.C. vehicles with Fluid Flywheels and Wilson selfchanging gearboxes. Stories of traffic patrol, officers who return every day with the same number of " speed " offenders 'booked.
That the majority of these are unaccompanied drivers Of an outsize member of the industry complaining that Nature has equipped him with an " expanding body" which he does not consider to be a satisfac
tory one. -
" Pick up the bits after the writs." 0 That it would surprise the man in the street to know how much of his food comes to him by road.
Of a bus service being known as "The Banana Service" because the vehicles come in bunches.
That tramways have their points—and those who live on tram routes are painfully aware of the fact when cars negotiate them at night.
That some admit having the interests ofroad: 'transport at heart and most 1(although they may not be aware of it) have it at stomach.