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That the 11.17.R.T. Co. has an absorption That Mr. Howard Humphreys does not intend to hurry back from Fiji.
That " Constructeur de Corps" is somebody's ides, of the French for body-maker.
That preparations for next year's show at Olympia are row claiming universal attention.
That one reason for the non-circulation of home copies of " The Dominion and Overseas Special " is really well under. stood—if not admitted.
That certain holders of L.G.O.C. ordinary stock are genuinely nervous about its future, hut that one sheet-anchor for its retention is the fact that directors of the company are large holders at prices a long way above par, and that this circumstance does not favour reconstruction if it can he legitimately avoided—either new or in the future. That the New Year will open with several most startling announcements about personal moves.
That the Adams company is one of several which are about to turn out tricycle-carriers.
That Mr. Frederick R. Simms is again in America, but that he will be home for the next dinner of the R.A.C. fouie der-members.
That important makers who said they would not show— Oh, Nu, intend to du so after all, and that the question is who in the end will be mi,:ising?
That all kinds of novel proposals fur extra prizes at the 1911 Parade will be put before the Executive Committee of the C.:X.17.A. at its January meeting.
That Ogden Smith; the outfitter, is now using one of bis commercial vehicles for Christmas traffic disguised as a huge Noah's Ark, but that the chassis beneath is not that old.
That a certain official at Bolton knows quite a lot about the true maxima which steam wagons can honestly carry without reaching illegal axle-weights, and that he wants to talk about it.
That mailings of "The Dominion and Overseas Special Number" are steadily going on from this office, in order duly to discharge our promise that it should be " First Out. for the New Year."
That a South-London firm hopes shortly to market a small, four-wheel, two-speed motervan at 50 guineas, but that, even on cycle lines, this price will probably not prove a commercial proposition.
That some people don't know why our last issue but one was a tercentenary one, for, they say, " the CM,' surely hasn't been going for 300 years "—very natural, too, for anybody who does not know much about etymology.