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That alcohol is going a-begging, That a dead axle gets many a shock.
That most Overseas matter comes overland.
That many accessories show much afterthought.
That feeder bus routes should prove a good fillip.
That a hunting tooth often has to do a bit of racing.
That the business getter is not always the business keeper.
That Pegasus would make a good trade-mark for the N.A.G.
Of a. comp. who inquired the meaning of overtype construction.
That most life-guards and spring-wheel inventions give one the shakes.
That the alarm clock makes a poor prime-mover these dark mornings.
That only the tubular form of cast-steel road wheel stands upon bad roads.
That "quarter-elliptic-cantilever-spring-suspension" IS rather a mixed term.
That many comma, as well as notes of exclamation, have to come to a stop.
That makers of three-quarter elliptic 'springs may turn over a new leaf in 1914.
That several big groups mean to have a finger in provincial motorbus developments.
That it's only a question of weight which makes certain users stick to solid east-steel spokes.
That our new series" Motor Sledges at Seaside Resorts " will not be published until after Xmas.
That amateur-driven motor road-sweepers in Leeds are a partial solutionof one phase of the strike there.
That the Rotherham. Corporation is testing a Daimler motorbus at a nominal hiring charge of 3d. per mile run.
That motorbuses and in•otorvans now give points from the picturesque point of view to the majority of horsed vehicles.
That, now you can buy chocolate on the trams, it should not be long before each passenger will get a cake as a bonus—out of the rates.
That Sir Boverton Redwood has been unable to recommend the award of the S.M.M.T. 2000-guinea prize for a new home-produced motor fuel, but that the offer is not to be withdrawn.
That four of the 'Westminster Council horses are now over 20 years of age, and 39 of them over 15 years old, whilst only eight are "young and tender" with less than 10 years to their credit. That with many patents seeing is disbelieving.
That pneumatic suspension in place of springs makes but slow progress.
That Harrods intend to have a good battery-vehicle wing in their motorvan fleet.
That the cost of a pushful alcohol propaganda might well be £10,000 a year.
• • That the L.G.O.C. considers resilience in tires fully as important as mileage from them.
Of a bus in Holborn which endeavoured to reverse by the method common to the simple cyclecar.
That C.M.U,A. members are pleased with the special tariff arrangements at the Waldorf Hotel.
That horse-cabs are not yet worthless everywhere from a profit-earning standpoint, although nearly sc.
That the mention of agricultural motors to be made at Walthamstow had turned attention there to " sewing " machines.
That there will be no show dinner at Manchestei the night before the commercial-vehicle display opens next month.
That "anywhere for a' penny" may shortly be put on to the trams, but that in time this may be changed to "any tram for a penny."
That the L.G.O.C. and. L.C.C. reseodule a certain type of twin-cylinder engine, in that they have to work together though opposed.
That upwards of Woo retailers all over the country have already been induced to stock benzole through the active campaign of "The Motor."
That the De Dion-Bouton people have issued a denial of the report that their commercial-vehicle factory was to be acquired by Messrs. Schneider, of Creusot.
That Germany will in future use motor columns to deliver ammunition direct into the fighting line, and that animal transport is recognized to be inadequate to meet the increased projectile and shell consumption of modern artillery. That the Marquis of Tweeddale intends to be an energetic and working director of Greater Omnibus Services, Ltd.
That. motor traffic of all kinds has increased by more than 200 per cent., in the County of Gloucester, during the past two years.
That the chairman of the L.C.C. cannot discharge his duties to that body and the ratepayers, except by the use of a motorcar. That Merryweather will shortly meet Halley at Leith.
That Brighton and Hove are still a long way from a through-running arrangement.
That Blackp.00l has already licensed 28 chars-hbanes, and that seven more applications are expected.
That. the Corporation of the City of London and its traders remain intractably opposed to tramway extensions.