One Hears— Fog-muffled hoots.
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Of more tramway decay.
The rising tide of the cyclecar.
That what this journal doesn't get first is seldom worth the getting.
That plans are well in hand for the production of chassis at a pound apiece.
Requests for the publication of the traffic receipts of the large cab companies.
That a hydraulic-transmission system will shortly be obtainable in commercial form.
That no tax is payable for armorial bearings or crests on public-service vehicles.
Of much juggling with the designs of parcelears ; of types dropped and models altered.
That overcrowding is being experienced in the motorbus driver and conductor businesses.
Of a Paris motorcab company having its own aeroplane, which was built in its own shops.
From Mr. Frank Lanchester, that a motor vehicle is a thing that, taxed like a dog, purrs like a cat.
That the machine tool which tackles four or more pieces at once is the bae noire of the trades unionist.
From Mr. T. B. Browne, that no one has as yet suggested a definition for a unit of either'noise or That everybody jumps when the electro magnet shown by W. Silverstein and Co. takes hold of the girder.
That that great western road will he built in spite of local authorities' preferences for parish-pump schemes.
That the way the L.G.O.C. proposes to demonstrate the uselessness of trams will startle the L.C.C. very considerably.
That several factories in which valuable automatic machinery is to be found are stupidly short of tools to keep them going.
Of a further number of well-known pleasure-car builders who have plans matured for the construction of commercial vehicles.
That a Nottingham manufacturer says that, since the second Dennis has arrived, it is hardly worth while having a fire nowadays, as the brigade can turn out too quickly.
That Great Britain's newest weekly journal, which will be called The Cyclecar," is but one expression of many good intentions not to let the American runabout have everything its own way.
That a gentleman, who has chosen to live in a small house outside the main gate of the huge bus depot in Forest Gate, never fails to protest emphatically about the noise when a motorcar temporarily stops outside his gateway, and that he seems to have chosen his habitation with some little lack of foresight, to say the least of it. That we must make the best of it.
Of van-body builders refusing to quote for parcelcar bodies.
Many favourable opinions anent the new marking scheme for the 1913 Parade.
That Mr. H. Kerr Thomas is due in London about a fortnight hence, from Buffalo, N.Y.
That paraffin cannot fail to reduce running costs, but that coal is the best of all safeguards.
That there is an opening for a lorry or two to work goods per the ferry between Gravesend and Tilbury.
That the S.M.M. T. dinner, at the Savoy, on the 6th prox., will eclipse all previous annual banquets of the industry.
That Mr. F. R. de Bertodano has been re-elected a representative on the General Committee of the R.A.C.
Of a second edition needed to meet demands for the little brochure concerning The 1913 Overseas Annual of December next, That next year's Finance Bill may contain provision to exempt motor ambulances and certain publichealth motors from the petrol tax.
That road surveyors who have the sense to go in for timely patching and ramming have no occasion to deplore the advent of motor services.
Of hitherto staunch steam-wagon drivers turning their attention to the study of petrol vehicles, with a. view to securing both championship prizes at the 1913 Parade.
That the G.P.O. is too grasping in the matter of profits and sayings upon some motor mails, and that it may find both itself and the public badly left in a few instances shortly as a result..
That the C.1LTJ.A. will beat all previous records for new memberships in any one month during October, and that three members per working day have so far been enrolled this month.
That the C.M.U.A. is not a little perturbed at the advances in charges for petrol, and that it is being urged by some of its members to take active steps to encourage the extended use of rubber-tired steamers.
That some newspaper owners of parcelcars, who had previously wondered how to make room for a second youth, now, whenever there is space, let him stow himself in the box with the bundles, in order to avoid top hamper.
That any petrol-driven motorbuses for use on the rails along the Liverpool line of docks would need to be fitted with Brodie's patent adjustable flanges, in order that they might run on the track, leave it to overtake slow trains, and return to the rails, as required.
That it's about time the smart traffic men of the L.G.O.C. began to do a little more to increase the frequency of services during rush hours upon lengths of road such as that between Piccadilly Circus and Hammersmith, and that the low capital value of spare vehicles should help them to lay a few hundreds by for the purpose.