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Much that one must not write about.
That the Editor of a certain motor paper was once a policeman.
That " The Extractor " is keen to receive more suggestions for souvenirs.
That the subject of miniature vans will be taken up by more than one maker of larger vehicles.
That one of the quickest learners to pass the " Knowledge of Landon " test for cab drivers was a Turk.
That a small fleet of " Commer Cars " is to carry the Army's beer during the coming grand manceuvres.
That any manufacturer who desires to secure a competentlywritten description of his three-ton or other chassis relies upon this journal. , That Mr. H Thomson Lyon, after an interesting and incident-crammed sojourn at e,ettigne, came back civilizationwards by way of Venice.
That Mr. P. 0. Serck, the English resident partner of The Motor Radiator Manufacturing Co., is cooler, now that he has taken delivery of his new Calthorpe chassis.
That Mr. Arthur Drummond generally gets his own way— whether it be in argument with an engineer on a point of machine-tool design or with a hotel waiter on a question of house rules.
That the Lancashire County Police have really been blamed for the mistaken zeal of other forces which are not under county administration, and that certain amends will soon be made in this connection.
That intending new life members of the Royal Automobile Club should hurry up, and that their chance of entry in exchange for £100, which is less than eight years' purchase, will not exist for many months longer.
That, during the two-and-a-half hours of alleged wrestling at the Shepherd's Bush Stadium last Saturday, over 200 taxicabs waited round "the Bush" to pick up fares, and that, in one row of 85 cabs, all were horseless bar one.
That Messrs. James Bowman and Sons, removal contractors, of York, finding that their Wellington tractor was more than "man enough for their largest pantechnicons, has had a mammoth van built of sheet steel, and that the tractor is still master of the load. That, " Commer Cars " were also first in Gracechurch Street —before their offices were successively moved to Kingsway and then to Cambridge Circus.
That Mr. S. Bergersen, Superintendent of motor transport to the Government of Southern Nigeria, is home on leave, and that he is about to visit Glasgow and Coventry.
That the " TI'." in commercial-motor parlance means the . Thomas Transmission—not the Tourist Trophy, and that it doesn't eat (or drink) petrol at the alarming rate of some petrol-electric combinations.
That the Great Eastern London Motor Omnibus Co.'s profit of .£22,000 will be multiplied by nine when the London General brings out its accounts in December, but that there is so much more to do with it.
That one gentleman at the Engineering Exhibition, in an endeavour to give an explanation of the difference between the two forms of pump shown on Lamplough's stand, said that one was a rotary rammer while the other was a rotary squeezer.
That Mr. W. J. Toombs, the proprietor of one of the London schools -Which teaches "Knowledge of London," and whose premises are at the apex formed by Rosebery Avenue and Clerkenwell Road, desires it to be known that he never was anxious to dispose of his goodwill.
That Driver Tom Wall of Acton still insists that the Editor of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR has several brothers-in-law in London bus and cab circles of influence, and that there are ugly rumours about that several other members of the staff have relations where the men think they are harmful.
That Drummond's 'sell-contained workshop," by which designation the new Drummond-Barreto universal machine might well be known, is one of the sensations of the Machinery Exhibition at Olympia, and that the other is Lamplough's new mechanical movement---at present only in a blower.
That Mr. A. W. Torkington is very busy trying to overcome the prejudice which many people hold against the use of soft solid-rubber tires for motorcabs, that the same class of people opposed the introduction of pneumatic tires some years ago, and that they will go on opposing all new or practical things until doomsday.
That the Wolseley Co. has absorbed, and is adapting to its own use, the whole of the neighbouring works of the Metropolitan Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd.. at Adderley Park, and that, in spite of this very-extensive addition to its manufacturing capacity, the augmented plant will still be fully occupied in the production of pleasure vehicles and marine engines, to say nothing of motor sledges.