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"Happy are the tramless towns."
That Parade results mean trade results.
Oi fitting briskness in body-making lines.
That suitable bounce postpones retiring.
That some of the bus posters are riposters.
That a few publicity clerks and salesmen need That a slump in coke will coincide with a boom in roke-firing.
That it takes a long time to strike midnight in Shrewsbury.
That delivery at all times is even better than in next to no time.
The greater the hills the greater the profits—from c,tinnercial motors.
That the King and his suite will use Austin cars at Hull Docks on Saturday.
That the _piston of a sleeve-valve engine must be provided with a long skirt.
That road motors only suffered temporarily in the catastrophic Paris visitation.
That the .Warrington Corporation's motorbuses have been fitted with side lifeguards.
That after the recent storm the Road Board may have to consult more than one sewer board.
That a garage manager recently found a mislaid cp•lecar hidden under a three-ton lorry body.
That Pratt's are excusably prattling about the seirit which K. Lee Guinness used in los winning Sanbeam.
Of a public-service vehicle having its large chain wheels .cast in phospher bronze ; this runs rather expensive.
That the Paris Show this year will be held from tle16th to 26th October, and will include " industriels et viihicules de transport en commun." That the "Royal" now demands attention. That a journal's credentials are its readers. That a fierce clutch usually has a shocking face. That battery men don't like the word " boosting."
That the Dennis Rifle Club is now very straight stuff.
Thatprovincial parcel-delivery companies are order-giving.
That Sheffield Corporation is open to buy out local motorbus owners.
That Merryweather's strike was yet another new experience for them.
With one ear, that one year all the International motoring prizes will be won here.
That horses were never so dear since the FrancoPrussian war as they are at the present time.
That piecing timetables and picture postcards together is not the way to make a good railway article.
That Russian military authorities are following France and arranging trials for four-wheel-drive systems.
That a new and very prosperous branch of the private-hire business is that with motorcycles and sidecars.
That Clause 25 of the Middlesex Bill is a case of electric-tramcar proprietors v. petrol-motorbus proprietors.
That pro-tramcar enthusiasts will be further upset to learn that motorbuses are now being run in London on a tire bill of id. a mile.
That the experimental "Esmond one-man hood" tent made for Captain Scott has successfully undergone strenuous tests in Norway.
That between Holborn Hall and Piccadilly Circus the average bus driver makes 62 movements with his gear change and hand-brake levers.
That Commercial Cars, Ltd., of Luton, has been awarded a W.O. subsidy certificate in respect of the model which competed in the recent trials.
That Spiers and Pond's horse-vans are carrying a poster drawing attention to that company's t:-cup of motorvans es winners ot '1 HE COMMERCIAL MOTOR challenge cup.
That, whilst on record as a fact, the pinning of a man against a wall by a traction engine, withouthunting him, is not recommended as a good driving test-, and that the incident appropriately occurred in Threadneedle Street.
That the DevelopmentCommissioners might be well advised, in respect of funds to help the alcohol research of the imperial 'Motor Transport Council, if they followed the precedent, established in respect of the Agricultural Organization Society, of giving £2 per annum for each El of funds obtained from other sources.