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That danger is speed in the wrong place.
That all is not well with the rentenniark. Of threshing delayed by the coal shortage.
Of motor drivers starving on the King's highway.
That the country inn has only itself to blame if the local pastry-cook scoops its trade.
Of yet another 2s. (per chaldron) advance in coke prices.
Of "guaranteed mileage" as a new' selling point for brake linings. 0 Someone asking if petrol substitutes can be used for Petrol vapour lamps.
That if the Road Fund is to pay for everything there'll be the devil to pay.
Of a creeper-track freighter suggestion and that it would be a real caterpillar.
Of certain well-known hauliers' sudden and wholesale conversion to pneumatics.
That, as a means of attracting custom, coach proprietors have found that polish is power.
Of bus specifications reading like fashion articles —waistlines, split skirts and smart lines.
How long before we have chic chassis and charming creations in carrosserie?
That "pounds, shillings and pence count" on most jobs, but it is not every job that can count on them.
Of renewed support for the projected organization by the S.M.M. and T. of a section at the Royal Show each year.
That some provincial conductors could, with advantage, take a leaf from the book of their courteous London confreres.
That the timings for connections between some lines of motorbuses deserve to be more closely related to running practice. 0 Of a Morris 1-ton truck which, in the service of the Hampshire County Council, was in use on 364 days out of the 365 of the twelve months.
That its total ton-mileage was 136,300 and the running costs per ton-mile, including depreciation, were' 7.49d.
That the restricted railway service, resulting from the coal strike, has brought about the establishment of a number of inter-town bus services.
That owners generally are bracing themselves to meet the extra £3,000,000 a year of taxation due to the new licence scales and the extension of McKenna duties in combination.
That of cash in hand is worth two in the 1927 bush. Complaints quicker than praise.
Less of the skid bogey with six wheels.
Of luxurious equipment on " all-night " lorries. That a haulier's best friend is often his telephone.
That when roads are up average speeds are down: Of a fare-cutting hill on some keenly competitive routes.
That in such matters a full measure of discretion is the better part of business.
Mention in a daily paper of a motoyear with 28 pas sengers. 0 That turbulence is more desirable inengines than in politics.
That a common carrier needs more than common knowledge.
That the Dennis " happY tnedium " is not a smiling spiritualist. 0 That this folder is, nevertheless, bringing rdany inquirers into rapport with the manufacturers.
Complaints of inadequate bus accommodation in the hop districts. 0 That an ingenious driver will get a dud home when another cannot.
Of the neM for more bus routes in many parts of industrial Britain, 0 That transporting outcrop coal makes up for a shortage of live fares in some mining areas.
Of large Purchases of motorbus chassis, mainly of Italian construction, on Brazilian account.
That, owing to motorbus gompetition, a tramway drawn by mules, an old-established institution in• Barbados, has had to shut down.
That a petrol-filling pump is now available outside the Great St. Bernard Hospice at the summit of the pass between Switzerland and Italy.
The suggestion that, when Weymouth recently had two high tides in an hour, one was caused by a crowd of Channel swimmers taking the water simultaneously.
That Burton-on-Trent Corporation, having recently increased its bus fleet to twelve, proposes further additions, because the buses have made money whilst the trams have been losing it.
That such is the proof of the proverbial-pudding, and many authorities know it.