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on the increase, That the initial 10d. will be the London solution of the taxi trouble.
That another prominent tire company is seeking a new London depot.
That Birmingham is delighted with its sample " K.P.L.'—now in service.
That the L.G.O.C. old-age-pension scheme is bringing the company much credit.
That many new tourist routes across Dartmoor will be opened up by motorbus next year.
That Billingsgate auctioneers like the platform of a G.W.R. five-ton petrol lorry as a rostrum.
That our up-to-date crowds nowadays laugh at. the puny speed efforts of horse-drawn fire-engines.
That Aveling and Porter road rollers have been doing good work for the Turkish Government.
That a Dennis " Black Maria" for Salford is eagerly awaited there by people who look forward to motoring that way.
That interested London cabbies are afraid that the public won't know the new four-cylinder Renault taxi from the old two-cylinder model.
That the " Commer-Car " extensions at Luton cover all the available land, and that the directors now wish they had secured more at the outset.
That the smartest piece of reporting work connected with the L.G.O.C. annual general meeting of Friday last was accomplished by "The Railway News."
That, in the opinion of most railway goods-traffic experts, the idea of a central distributing depOt for London is impracticable and clearly worth no detailed consideration.
That Mr. T. Salkield, the City Engineer of Delhi, India's new capital, will arrive home in England on long leave next June, and that he means to look round various motor works.
From a Rugby correspondent that the British Thomson-Houston works are turning out a simple petrolelectric railcar with ordinary spur-pinion transmission for one of this country's big railway companies. That a lot of people don't know what an escalator is, and that fewer still knew of the buscalator.
That Derby is to be made the centre for the Midlands for the interchange motor-mail system of the G.P.O.
That London motorbus companies will offer no objections to the more-general use of centrally-hung lamps.
That whilst motorbus conductors do not like to be ordered " higher up " the shareholders will not mind if the stock goes there.
That the new memorandum and articles of association for the incorporation of the C.M.U.A. are now in the hands of the Board of Trade.
That the C.M.U.A. circular letter re tramcar rating has furnished many borough councillors in London with arguments which they previously lacked.
That the Mann street-watering steamer which was dispatched to Delhi in September last has been doing wonderfully-effective service all sides of the Durbar, That another marvellous transport scheme for Lancashire is in preparation by parties who must imagine that the work down there is neglected at present and easy to do.
That motor-haulage people will make fortunes during the construction of the San Francisco International Exhibition which is to be got ready and finished by April, 1913.
That timber merchants and suppliers of wooden wheels are somewhat perturbed to find how many manufacturers of commercial motors are going in universally for cast-steel wheels.
That the L.G.O.C. meeting last week gave short shrift to several small shareholders who essayed to teach the Board, but that Mr. Henry Hicks, as is his wont, was courteous to all of them.
That the Darracq factory is ready to turn out threeton petrol chassis in quantities, and that the directors expect better results in this branch than they happened to get from their three-ton steamers.
That the Governors of several big hospitals and infirmaries are making inquiry for motor-ambulance services, to be provided on a hiring basis, but that the intermittent character of the work makes it difficult for garage proprietors to make money out of it.