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the sit-on-the-fence crowd shouting again.
of big pending orders for motor fire-engines.
with pleasure, that there is to he a London Shaw.
That the miniature van will prove a useful reality at Olympia five months hence.
'that, whilet his was the tidy " I.," the Editor has been aided by more then one here.
That Mr. Sam Samuel will be asked to make his Savoy dinner an annual function hereafter.
That several provincial tovins intend without delay to fit cab-rank telephones to lamp posts or other supporting columns.
That the adoption of a guinea entrance fee by the 0.M.U.A. has helped and not hindered the enrolment ot new members.
evidences of a heroic struggle to get together the semblance of a committee, and that it promises well enough to become yet another unconverted try.
That the chase round after the Overseas brochure grows hotter and hotter, and that all possible steps will he taken to see it early and to read it often.
That, whilst America has only of recent, years discovered what life really is, motor journalism in particular has always been "one damn thing after another."
That a number of old Wolseley, Thornycroft, Serpollet, Napier, Vanguard, and other men will dine together to-morrow night, and that the " C.M." knows them all.
That the Committee and Secretary of London's Annual Horse-Van Parade are immensely perturbed by the prospect of a rival show of motorvans en Whit-Monday next.
That not a few owners and intending purchasers from the Colonies have already settled their plans ahead so ns to visit the Olympia Commercial Vehicle show at the end of March.
That the Foden Steam Wagon Works Championship Brass Band may be in attendance at the 1911 Parade of the C..st.U,A., but that its presence will depend upon the terms.
That the War-Office registration fee for tractors and wagons may be put up to as much as .£20 per annum, hut that requiremem ns to the Tre:Thanical condition of the machines will in that event be stiffened.
That the cold analytical eye of the Road Board, following the uncovering of particular statistical fetishes, has already caused several county surveyors to shiver in their hoots, but that the winter of their discontent, which will really be an outside proposition, has yet to come. That nobody wants another association.
That the telephone bell of 437 Kensington rings pretty often.
That this is one of the best pages for advertisements to face.
That upwards of 200 tickets for the present Olympia Show were purchased through the Secretary of the Commercial Motor Users Association.
That machine tools must be very costly constructions in the States if, as one of our representatives was informed by a carstand attendant at Olympia, a cam-profiling machine cost £15,000 to build.
That it was embarrassing for the attendants on the Mass car stand at Olympia last Saturday, when the first letter of the electrically-illuminated name-board obstinately refused to keep alight during th: evening.
That some easily-persuaded folk think that Colonial traders continue their Christmas and New-Year festivities into the months of February and March, but that this most-offensive suggestion does not accord with facts.
That garage proprietors and country blacksmiths in Australia grow fat on the straightening of axles and replacing of springs—for which great mercies they bless the bad stretches of road, and particularly the concealed cross watercourses.
That the inhabitants of Northfleet, where the Austin Works are, were promised, much to their delight, a motorbus service by an enterprising promoter, but that, after £3 a page had been secured by him from local tradespeople for advertisements in a bulky time-table, no more was heard of the service or its organizer.
That there might now he money in a company formed to supply Welsh coal, coke, water and sundries to drivers of steam wagons and tractors up and down the trunk roads of this country, but that, when the case was examined some five years ago, THE CONEStERCIAL MOTOR found there was natal] risks considered,
That the winds, or what's on flow as a substitute, along the passages and shafts, for some reason entirely failed to free certain of the tube railways of fog-laden air last Friday and Saturday, and that, not a few people thought the ventilation arrangements must have been behaving in a way that undoubtedly was their own for the time being.
That when, on Saturday morning last, the first call was put through to the new telephone equipment on the electric-light standard at the Western end of the cab-rank by Melbury Road in the main Kensington-Hammersmith highway, a passing taxidriver who heard the bell ringing—there being no cab on the rank at the time—pulled up so eagerly that he .jolly nearly damaged his tires—a most-unusual thing for such a man to do !