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That no fewer than 11 " Commer-Car " chassis were ordered by cable from New York last week.
That a good commercial-vehicle agency may he had, either for Russia or Denmark, by the right parties.
That the Road Board will shortly take into consideration certain urgent aspects of the highway-bridge question.
That the annual sports and smoking concert of the Dennis .staff and employees will take place at Guildford next Saturday.
That the R.A.S.E. trials gradually fell into better shape as they progressed, and that the interest evinced by visitors was remarkable.
That in the Provinces, much hiring of taxicabs is done " on tick," and that its a lot of trouble subsequently to collect thewherewithal.
That Westminster's favourable decision will cause .Rochdale (Cleansing Department, Mr. F. W. Brookman, Manager) to place early orders.
That experiments are being made with a new steam wagon and a steam tractor, both by concerns which are well known in the engineering world.
That the new flat-topped Pratt's petrol cans are not so -useful for collecting dirt as are those of the old pattern which have a rim round the top.
That makers on this side, who have not established relations with America, simply cannot understand how sales are possible with a 45-per-cent. import duty to be borne.
That the number of road-hogs at large on the highways of South Wales is remarkable; that none of them carry tail lights or number plates ; and that they all belong to Welsh farmers. • That Col. Crompton remained in Brussels, after the close of the Second International Road Congress, in order to attend the International Electro-Technical Congress, but that he is now back in England.
That London taxicabbies are jolly sick about the way in which people are realizing that " extras " should be registered before payment, for which act of education THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR is primarily responsible.
That a reputed, old-established and highly-respected engineering concern in the East End of London is about to start a new department for the repair of all classes of motor vehicles, and that it will do good work.
That an old Buessing lorry, with a load of Territorial baggage, while trying to climb a Pembrokeshire hill, part of the gradient of which is steeper than 1 in 3, finally gave up the unequal struggle and collapsed with a broken gear shaft.
That the. frequent dissatisfaction of the horse-bus driver with his colleague on the back footboard was amusingly illustrated the other day in a report sheet, in the complaints column of which the driver wrote " New ornament wanted on back."
That Mr. E. F. Botilt, our Australian correspondent, is doing splendidly in Sydney, X.S.W., and that his weetil v column on the commercial motor in " The Morning Herald " is read nearly as keenly by Australian owners as arc the pages of this journal each week.
That the Bristol Tramways Co's. half-a-crown motorbus trip from Weston-super-Mare to Cheddar Gorge is very popniar with visitors, but that the speed of the machines is occasionally far too high along a route which is in most places only wide enough for one vehicle, and on which there are quite a number of dangerous corners and concealed cattle. That Mr. Henry McLaren does scale rather more than a hundredweight and a half.
That visitors from the Argentine and other South-American countri.s are asking -for it self-contained paraffin tractor and plough.
That more than one of the competing machines was untried before dispatch to Baldock, and that their sponsors regretted the fact.
That points in the motors were not the only good features which were of interest to pressmen on the R.A.S.E. trial ground at Bygrave. * 'feat there was some doubt in the minds of many visitors as to whether one of the competitors' engines was being run on paraffin or lubricating oil.
That the 'McLaren tractor which won the R.A.S.E. gold medal may not have been a standard machine, but that it won on its merits there can be no doubt.
That two strenuous journalists were seen during the harvesting tests observing the trials while comfortably ensconced among wheat sheaves, but that the said wheat sheaves were not or the " fully-licensed " variety.
That one gentleman drove round the R.A.S.E. course for the road trials in the hope of picking up a piece of one of the machinzs as a memento, but that a fitter who accompanied the said machine got there first every time.
That the circumstances of a recent taxicab joy-ride, in which university undergraduates and chorus girls were embroiled, were of such a remarkable character that three of the undergraduates were promptly " sent down."
That there is a cathedral city in Great Britain which is 14 miles from any railway station; that communication with it is still maintained by horse-drawn means; and that that is not necessarily why one of its inhabitants lived to the considerable age of 140.
That that erstwhile " petrol-electric expert," Mr. Bernard Hoppa, is now doing excellent business with his patent sparking plug, the Mascot ; that he is replacing all defective supplies; and that these, during the past eight months, have not averaged one-half of one per cent.
That a. friend of ours recently got into a London taxicab, whose driver didn't know where Rosebery Avenue was, and who wantai to know whether, from Lombard Street, he would have to go via the Angel; that this same driver had two collisions on the journey; and that his tip was not a large one.
That Mr. Winston Churchill does not, for a while, intend to suggest that any more public servants shall have his august permission to do things which they have no desire to do, and that there is no truth in the rumour that. policemen and postmen on duty are to be allowed to smoke, play draughts. or do knitting.
That the G.W.R. motorbus service between Brecon and Abergavenny is still being maintained over very-hilly and thickly-wooded country with double-decked machines; that single-deckers would surely be more handy on such a difficult route ; and that the overhanging trees en route would not suffer so much.
That the way in which the Bristol motorcar owners insist that the local public in Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare shall remember what number " to ring up for a Taxi'' commendably enterprising, and that huge illuminated street signs. theatre safety curtains, and hoardings act as constant reminders in this respect.
That a man who has for some years prepared the oatmeal water for the bus horses in the station-yard at Louden Bridge now helps to fill the radiators of the motorbuses. and that this change of profession has apparently necessitated the substitution of a leather motor hat for an ancient bowler as part of that individual's wcrking attire.