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EIGHT WHEELED BUSES.
MOTOR TRANSPORT OF THE
FUTURE.
Lord. Montagu of Beaulieu, pro- bably the greatest living British authority on motoring, looks for ward to the day in the near future when the busca plying on the streets of London and in other cities will run not on four or six wheels, but on eight wheels, and he believes that this enlargement will be to the benefit of the travelling public and the taxpayer.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1927.
SCOTSMAN'S THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE.
WISDOM ON A SKYE BOOK- SHELF.
L
The story a Scotsman's thirst for i knowledge was told in a recent letter to the Times by Mr. William. Robinson; Killinallan, 42 Elmwood, Welwyn Gardens, London.
He writes:-
While spending a holiday In Skye this autumn we found rooms over a small village shop. In the sitting-room afood a little home- Lord Montagu was reading amade bookcase, 3 feet by 2 feet, the paper at a session of the World work of the father of the family, Motor Transport Congress in Lon- who had died three years ago at don when the subject down for the age of 81, discussion was the development of
Born and bred in the village, hla the motor vehicle suitable for ser vice on bad roads and for cross-schooling over at 14. his thirst for knowledge had urged him through- country use.
out his life, during the long years of which he scarcely ever left his native laland. He read and studied alone, with no encouragement save. from a passing visitor, and the little bookcase told the tale.
It had always seemed to him in- evitable, said Lord Montagu, that the development of the heavy motor vehicle should follow the lines of the development of the railway vehicle.
The object of the railway engi- neer in increasing the number of wheels of each vehicle was that, while increasing, the carrying reducing the capacity, he was weight per axle.
Not so very long ago, he said, the sixwheeled vehicle was thought to be out of the range of pos- sibilities, but now we have several tvnes of "six-wheeled vehicles for passenger and freight, travelling on our roads.
.
Here are some of the contents;- Hagh Miller, in seven volumes; Spencer's "Study of Sociology;" advanced treatises on physics and dynamics; "The Principles of the Free Church; Smith's Solid Geometry; Huxley's "Science and Ilebrew Tradition," three volumes on the Calculus; text-books. of physick and geology; Sir Robert "Story of the Heavens:" Bali's
"Modern Science and Laing's Modern Thought:" "The Fourth Dimension," by Manning.
We know that in London we al-.
His mind was virile and alert ready have the six-wheel bus carry to the last. One of his latest ing 63 passengers, in which the acquisitions, not published till he' weight per axle is less than the was over 80, was Bolton's "Intro weight on the four-wheel bus, duction to the Theory of Re- not village did which only carries 54. That is a
lativity!" The very welcome development and think overmuch of him. Quiet and sensible one as well.
gentle, he thought deeply, but said little.
A Story of the Desert. He related his experiences of travelling from Beyrout to Bagdad with a six-wheeled waggon with an engine of comparatively.
It was with humility and re- verence we said good-bye to the little bookcase, Somo such humble small scholar may have prompted one of power, carrying 2% tons weight. the characters in Sir James Barrie's
The waggon drew that weight tales of Scottish life.
across the whole distance, some-
Limes over the sandy desert,
over,
of
generally over very bad ground, Toronto, Ont., Nov. 20.-In the with greater easen did the small five months of their operation,,
(Lar touring car in which he
the Ontario Government liquor, Montagn), was travelling. More-stores have paid a net profit of
almost the $4,500,000,
$1,000,000 the consumption waggon ten miles per gallon more than had been estimated. for the same was slighty lower than the con- The gross revenue sumption of the small car.
period was $12,000,000, twelve times as much was received last year under the Ontario Tem- perance Act..
1 am in favour of the multi-wheel vehicle, and look forward to the time when most of the buses on the streets of London and elsewhere 'will be six-wheel vehicles, but I am quite certain that in the not distant future our vehicles will he of the eight-wheel type.
There will be less strain on the road, so that the eight-wheel type will be better from the point, of view of the roadmaker and also of the ratemyer.
"FASHIONS AND MORALS.
DRESS PROPAGANDA IN
ITALY.
most
Rome, Nov. 9. The women of Italy, especially lenders of fashion, ..fre being again stirred
to up renew the
against camp overdressing, or, as some express It, against underdressing. Notices often appear on church doors con- demning short skirts, no sleeves. and decolletee dresses as unsuitable attire in which to at- the tend Mass. In some cases exact distance la centimetres, from collar bone down to ankle, considered seemly by the eccle- siastic authorities, ris given: for the guidance of the faithful. For an Italian woman to be unfashion- able is unthinkable: according to her purse and station she dresses well and knows the difficult art of putting on her clothes. The pro- blem of being both pious and fashionable was solved by throw ing a long-fringed shawl grace- fully over bare arms, and throwe ing it off hastily upon leaving church.
But the troubles of the fashion- able are not over. This time-the attack is aimed at another vulner- able point, that of patriotism, and a proclamation is issued by "the National Committee for the Cor- rectness of Fashions in Dress," in which society Indies are begged to set a good example by combatting "wanton, eccentric, and frivolous modes in dress," and also by en- Italian. Industries, couraging patronishing Italian sartorial in spiration instead of that of for eign countries, and buying Italian materials.
Similar campaigns have been started without success in other countries where the "fair" for dressing is less general than in Italy and enthusiasm for fuds more frequent: It is unlikely, therefore, that Italian women will prove exceptions to the rule, and that secular persuasion will "Buc ceed where religious pressure failed.
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