One Hears— Some of the old L.G.O.C. motorbus chassis, when they pass in the night.
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That trouble after some dinners is due to the debate and not the whitebait.
Of Limericks and stories in preparation for afterdinner gatherings at Manchester.
That Lord Rosebery wore "a shocking bad hat" when he visited Waverley Marketlast month.
That many tradesmen who were never able to keep a horse-van find a parcelcar to be a. money-maker.
That many Australian owners are watching with interest the records of tires which are manufactured " down under."
That five tenders are before the Hendon U.D.C. Fire Brigade Committee, and that the competitive prices vary from £1013 to 21220.
That Mr. Aernilius Jarvis, of Toronto, has been in London with regard to motorbus possibilities, and that any vehicles will have to be single-deckers.
That everybody recognizes the fact that Mr. Charles D. Clayton, the Press manager for the S.M.M.T., wrote a clever advance notice of the North of England Show.
That Mr. W. H. Schofield, the county surveyor for Lancashire, is very busy on the 1913-1914 estimates, and that he means to pull up arrears of trunk-road reconstruction, if possible.
That next September's New York International Exhibition of rubber and kindred products will witness. a competition for the best methods of paving streets with non-slip rubber blocks. That nothing is more difficult to hit than the happy mean.
that the Reform Club is not so inconsolable as might have been expected.
That not every owner of a petrol fleet is perturbed by the rise in the price of petrol.
That some tradesmen prefer the outdoor assistance of a parcelear to the indoor assistance of a new shopman.
Of perspiring motorbus officials who want to know if the non-skid inventors were as trying as the mancatcher lot.
That Sir John Macdonald evinced considerable interest in the airless spring wheel on the Connolly stand at the recent Edinburgh Show.
That Mr. A. W. Torkington is making a speciality of a non-skid solid-rubber tire, and that he has great hopes about its future success upon motorbuses.
With satisfaction, many congratulations from members: of the industry upon the systematized arrangement of the Overseas 1913 Overseas Annual.
That whereas only 11.9 miles of new tramway construction were carried out by the L.C.C. from 1901 to 1907, a total of 30.5 miles was completed in the years 1908-1912.
That company registrations for the year 1912 showed an advance in the United Kingdom of some 16-i millions sterling on 1911, and that new oil companies acceroetainsteo. d for nearly eight millions of that total in