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That the demand for Wallis and Steevens tractors keeps brisk.
That long-distance motorbuses carry some funny folk to town.
That the C.M.U.A. still finds orders for badges keeping ahead of supplies.
That motorbus and other heavy traffic propositions for Toronto are very much on the tapis.
That some of the best Thames men have signed on in Merryweather's fine works at Greenwich.
That Major H. C. Wilder, A.S.C., is amongst the latest additions to the C.M.U.A. membership roll.
That motorvans will soon finish demonstrating the truth of the view that confidence is a plant of slow growth.
That Leyland chars--banes are doing splendidly for the Cape Electric Tramway Co., Ltd., at Cape Town, S.A.
That many who took part in the 1907 trials still wish THE COMMERCIAL Mowa would run another smoking concert.
That Milnes-Daimler is now housed in Long Acre, in more-central and better-adapted premises, and that i).21, Tottenham Court Road, is to let.
That a wood and canvas model of a steam wagon is attracting much local attention at Greenwich, and that it was executed by Messrs. Fry Bros., who own the real thing.
That the Cowey auxiliary air-suspension may conic into commercial-vehicle use before long, and that new motorbus companies whose principals are on the look-out for points of finesse are after it.
That the draft Bridges Bill was before a conference of delegates from the County Councils Association, the ComMercial Motor Users Association and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, at Caxton House, Westminster, yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon. This week, from Madrid.
That the R.I.A. is not he:oved of the L.C.C.
That 811,000,000 worth of motorvans were sold iu the States during the last year.
That the rates in York are already to go up id. in the £1 because of the recently-installed tramway system.
That the fiat has gone forth that F.L.A.T. motor lorries are to be used in larger and larger numbers in Tripoli.
That owners who fail to enter for the Parade by Monday next will in no circumstances escape the fines for lateness.
That the Thames Bank Body Works is booking orders for van bodies by the 600, and that one came from the Belsize Co.
That the Underground directors have turned down the " busealator idea, but that the motorbuses wili keep on top all the same_ That a movement has already been initiated by certain rubber tire companies to prevent the purchase by interested parties of their worn tires.
That anybody who has had the misfortune to undergo an operation involving trepanning naturally hopes to make headway.
That Harrods exhibit their pleasure-car mo-dels on a spring floor, but that when they take up the utilitarian side of the industry this refinement will be dropped.
That no new Privy Councillor better ,cleserved the honour than Sir F. J. S. Hopwood, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., Vice-chairman of the Development Commissioners under the Act of 1909.
That the ativent of the Darracq commercial chassis was feted by a dinner given by Mr. C. R. Garrard, the chief engineer, to all the heads of the departments under his control, and that the event was none the less merry because one entertaining member of the party bore the inappropriate name of Cheval.