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That " awt that's owt o' Lancashire's nowt," and that this is one reason why the 1910 Royal Show is such a success. a That Members of Parliament have been among the closest students of 'Twenty Points for Users of Lendon Taxicabs."
That Liverpool people wonder how it is they have, allowed Manchester to get ahead of them in self-propelled-traffic de veiopments. a That the R.A.S.E. will put up higher shedding, if it prove to be necessary for the accommodation of motorvans, at Norwich, next year.
That the Liverpool master-carter still thinks the pair-horse team invulnerable, although he doesn't quite like the steady way certain steam wagons are doing Pairrie'e work.
That the partial relief of congestion upon certain sections of railway in and around Manchester, due to the wider use of motor lorries, has allowed such economies to be effected that tbo companies are more than compensated for the loss of traffic involved.
That several general managers of railways have been laying their heads together anent the lopping-off from their parcelsnail traffic of big branches, but thatthey have come to the conclusion that they are lucky to retain any of it on the present scale of 55 per cent.
That another leading English manufacturing company will follow the lead of Commercial Cars, Ltd., in the mat-ter of placing its U.S.A. rights, but that. the process of reaching the signed, sealed and delivered stage is less easy of completion than is thought in some quarters.
That the Editor's paper for the Brussels Congress on the subject of Tramcars and Motorbuses will be widely reported in the English, French and German Press, that it will give a rude shock to tramway enthusiaats, and that it will open up new trading prospects for wood-paving contractors.
That rubber has seen top, that it failed to reach the feared 14e. a lb. because speculative holders of stocks became nervous a few weeks ago, that there is not less than an extra 20,000 tons of high-grade hard-cure Para " held up " in Brazil, and that certain South-American banks know it by reason of the fact that all their available cash is loaned on the security indicated. That there will not be a paper on magnetos at Brussels. • That Mr. H. Kerr-Thomas will pay a visit to England about September next.
That Fodens think of borrowing Tire COXMERC/AL MOTOR Cup for display at Stand Nu. 316.
That Sir George Gibb and Col. Crompton are motoring together on a protracted tour of inspection.
That the chief buyer of the United Alkali Co., Ltd., means to take a walk round the motors at the Show this week.
That Merryweathers want to know how it is there will only be Dennis engines in the Bournemouth demonstration next month.
That there will soon be a real boom in wood paving, whererevadersu.rban motorbus services are conducted upon macadamized o
a • That the R.A.C. will shortly grant a permit to the C.M.U.A. to conduct an interesting road teat of a new commercial motor.
That Walker's, of Warrington, who have rather marked time because of Col. W. Hall Walker's love of horses, may reconsider their position.
That the failure of the attempt to form a United Motor Attraction Defence and Rescue Alliance, Unlimited, has been conveniently forgotten by the would-he promoters.
That works managers in America do not always get the special steels they want, and that the Steel Trust is not an aid to uniformity of quality in motor-vehicle construction, That commercial motors will be mentioned in some of the speeches at Cheater, on Saturday next, on the occasion of the fifth provincial dinner of the R.A.C. and its associated clubs.
That the Liverpool Tramway accounts will benefit enormously by the extra receipts connected with the Show, and that all spare ears will be concentrated on the Wavertree and the Smithdown-road routes.
That the fid. first hiring charge (half a mile of travelling) for taxicabs at Liverpool is eurprising many who have not seen it before, and that drivers do not like to he taken off the front of a rank for the minimum.
That Bolton Town Council has no right to use its police as tax-gatherers, that the Lancashire County Council may have been blamed to Wile extent for borough inequities, and that it. is an unreasonable interference with trade to impose fines of £5 and upwards for axle-weight excesses of a Sew cwt.
That makers who did not help to support the recent C.M.U.A. mean to he in the swim next year, that the S.M.M.T. will probably take to heart Mr. Massae Buist's censure upon its comparative parsimony in respect of financial assistance, but that all things must have beginnings and be afterwards treated more generously according to proved merit.
That everybody is asking what will happen to the Motor Union with Rees Jeffrevs' services about to cease, and he also under an obligation to drop all directorships, whilst others perceive that his acceptance of the post of Secretary to the Road Board must-, in view of the big drop in salary and emoluments which it means to him, have been prompted by real devotion to the joint cause of good roads and fair play or motoring.
That he is the right man for the job, that his knowledge of highway and bridge law is considerable, that his never-ending theme has been unification of method of administration, that he understands the claims of commercial motors, and that he has probably by now rounded off enough of his corners not to offend local authorities and their officials as he unquestionably did at earlier stages of his road-improvement career.