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Genuinely-remarkabk reports of the "Solex– carburetter in commercial-vehicle service.
That Bristol has more motorcabs for its size than any other town in this country outside London.
That the L.G.O.C. directors will !lot hear of any reconstruction of the ordinary capital, and that they indignantly repudiate the suggestion that it is necessary.
That a frequent class of taxicab hiring, in certain towns in the Provinces, where the gilded youth abounds, is that known by the drivers as " ten-bob's-worth of slowly,''
That the tire company Nkitich has the reputation of being the most difficult of any with which to do business has Hot\ been brought to its knees, by a cettain cab company,
That illicit commissions are suggested in a telephoned order for a motorcab, which included a request for the attendance c,t a certain driver and the instruction that he was to " bring the furniture as before."
That more bonded pi trel stores are required throughout the country, and that one objection to the purchase of spirit out of is that on no aceount must any of it be sold or used for prvato purposes—or even flr testing or breakdown work.
From a returned Colonial pioneer. who has made lots of mon y by team haulage between Australian gold-fields and the CI-4'1.A, that there are several fortunes to be made by running 3-ton and 5-ton services for passengers, goods and gold in the saute districts, and that 5s, a ton-mile is it quite-usual rate in these Elysian fields.
That it frequentl takes the Excise officials over six months to "shell out" the 10. petrol rebate, after it has been claimed by commercial-vehicle users.
That motor-vehicle constructors will do well to keep an eye MI the very-extensive trolleybus propaganda with which municipalities and others are hieing entet tamed.
That most people are quite wrong about the meaning of those
taxicab M initials. and that .O.C, does ant mean " mostly old crocks," as many of these chassis are still running well.
That the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland's public approval of the Dublin Anti-Taxi Association's objects is calculated to bring well-deserved ridicule on his lordship's unprogressive head.
That a new millinu-dollar factory is being erected at Lansing, U.S.A., to make nnthing but Reo trucks," and that there is a rumour that this is the make which will appeal to everybody down to the shoe-black.
That an Inland-Revenue officer was recently persuaded by an astute car owner that, in the horse power formula
the D2 represented the piston area, and that this interpretation putt two guineas in the said owner's pocket.
That a certain contractor for motorcab-drivers' uniforms, whose quotations are always at " so much per suit,'' regardless of the size and shape of the driver, once artlessly volunteered the following considered opinion to a well-known taxicab owner : " You know, my dear alit% itith been proved, over and over again, that the thmalletht men alwayth make the motht thatithfactory driverth.–