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That the Major's dream may have been a nightmare.
That an attempt is being made to put the " K.P.L." on the streets of Brum.
That Sir David Salomons, Bart., will preside at the Liverpool Trials Anniversary dinner.
That the Hon. Arthur Stanley, M.P., cannot be at the dinner, seeing that he is touring in Canada.
That the Continental courting of chauffeurs is causing collateral concern to competing companies.
will "The Motor" reception room at Olympia will this year be in the gallery of the upstairs tearoom.
That it is a hard job to get at the ploughshares below some self-contained agricultural motors when they need cleaning.
That, on a recent run from London to Manchester via Leeds, a fast touring car met ten Foden wagons but overtook none.
That Mr. L. J, Martin, of Industrial Vehicles, Ltd,, is now happily recovering after a severe and prolonged attack of appendicitis.
That the court's decision as to whether a chassis is a carriage or a machine, from the railway-cartage point of view, is expected shortly.
That Marshall's were recently obliged temporarily to decline more orders for oil tractors, owing to excess work in hand, but that increased output has been arranged.
That 2,157 motor vehicles and 2,678 horse vehicles were counted in a week on the Chorley-Bolton road, and that further horse reductions will be very marked a year hence.
That putting up the words " No thoroughfare " on a plate-glass window at a motor-ridden corner does not always serve as a mascot when a skidding steeltired lorry is about.
Of a well-equipped factory near London which will shortly be re-opened under capable management to accept orders for motor manufacturers whose own works are overloaded.
That more than a dozen entries have already been received for the C.M.U.A. 1912 Parade, and that an inspecting engineer has been chosen for the task, which may concern 400-50D vehicles.
That Saunderson's latest models furnish triumphant justifiiiation for the enterprise of the lilstow works in originating the spring-mounted four-cylindered farm motor, and that orders are very numerous now.
That the War Office thinks nothing of corresponding for months about a broken bolt or any small part in any one of its own motors before sanctioning a renewal, and that the machine just sits down in the depot meanwhile unless the officers in charge execute a foreign order, or pay up out of their own slender resources, That interchangeable petrol and water unions are of value at times.
That only corn-controlled local authorities will go on ordering horse-ambulances.
That Mann and Overton's Manchester branch is pushing the sale of light vans to some effect.
That Canadian farmers want long credit, but that they give an absolutely-secure charge upon their appreciating land.
That Col. Crompton has been again confirmed in his view that only the paper which gives publication can be held responsible for an interview.
That the f..G.O.C. has altogether 900 three-ton chassis for sale on sight, that these are all in excellent order, and that they will be sold to suitable agents for about 2200 apiece without tires.
That a certain garage manager after being hustled on the telephone by a customer whose accumulator was in for re-charging really meant well when he gave orders to " put two more men on the job."
That persons who rant about the projection of motorbus axle-caps have probably never taken the trouble to look at or to measure the ponderous naves upon the majority of horse-drawn vehicles, and that the motor certainly has no monopoly.
That the L.G.O.C. and Tilling's are fixing up a fresh working agreement, that the next combined traffic move will embody organized running in distinct inner and outer zones, and that circular routes all around outer London will be an enterprising leamire of the scheme.
That Mr. F. Luke, the oldest staff member of the L.G.O.C. Motor Department, is leaving the company's service in ,order to reside in Melbourne, and that his principal business there will consist in the placing of a large number of the L.G.O.C. superseded chassis throughout Australia.
That the Board of Trade will yet ran the. L.C.C. knuckles for putting " All cars stop here " posts opposite to one another, and thus causing drivers of tramcars to infringe the 10-yard by-law, but that a succession of harder raps is badly needed in respect of the calm indifference to the 50 yard-interval bylaw in respect of cars on the same track.
That whilst it was the " Indian and Colonial Supplement " in 1905, the " Export and Foreign issue," in 19D6, the " All 'World Motorbus Number" in 1907, the " Overseas Special " in 1909, and the " Dominion and Overseas Extra Annual" in 1910, the title of this year's export issue of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR is already the subject of speculative inquiry.
That it has been found less costly to carry a third lamp in line with the extreme. off side of the bodywork of a tractor-type steamer than to pay damages to the parties who collide with portions of the vehicle which extend beyond the line of the so-called " offside " front lamp alongside the smoke-box, and that makers would do well to begin to fit the necessary extra bracket.