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That many of the 'W. and G." garage staff were sworn in as special constables last week.
That one licensed motoreabman has only one eye, but that he passed Scotland Yard's eye test all right.
That, although the " W. and G." garage at Acton has much of Hastings about it, there is no peer there yet.
That in less than an hour Mr. Harrison of Waring's raised 120 special constables, many of whom were exservice men from the transport department.
That Mr. R. W. Meade, of New York, and Mr. G. A. Green, of London, were seen together in Paris last week-end evidently studying motorbus and motorcab conditions.
That a Bolton-owned motor lorry brought home from the seaside, on Friday night last, along with its load of empty beer barrels, a number of stranded excursion ists.
That Mr. R. Fenton. who was until recently in charge of the Glasgow denot of the Provincial Motor Cab Co., Ltd., sailed on Saturday last, aboard the s.s. " Papanui " for Sydney. where he will once again be identified with prominent motor-vehicle interests. That L.G.O.C. petrol consumption sometimes actually runs to as much as 33,000 gallons a day.
That many hundreds of options upon motors of all kinds were arranged on Friday and Saturday last.
That some drivers and owners of heavy motors are sorry on financial grounds that the strikes did not continue.
That, in conformity with the spirit of the times, two jibbing horses, one at each end of London Bridge, held up the whole of the trainc tor a quarter or an hour last Friday—evidently a ease of collusion.
That, in view of the strenuous conditions imposed by the strikers, kis comforting to many owners to know that their wagons, at any rate, have artillery wheels, and that orders for Enfield chassis are likely to he more numerous, because they are "made like a gun."
That a Sinai! but elderly Darracq was seen proceeding at a funereal pace on the Reading road last Saturday, and that its cargo, besides a large amount of lugubrious impedimenta, included in the back seat three funeral mutes whose top hats and kid gloves were white with dust. That the strike manceuvres will take the place of those usually held.
That the Road Board will soon have to live up to its income or get into hot water.
Of naughty words used by managers and engineers whose holidays were struck by the strikes.
That. not a single maker in this country is in fact preparing on a large enough scale to meet next year's demands for increased output.
That a new divisional centre on the C.P.ity. has been christened " Coronation," and that investors are being exhorted to buy land there.
That this year, for the first time for a long while, there would have been no London General omnibus horses in the now-cancelled manceuvres.
Of troubles in the rubber-tire world, and that past excessive guarantees and dividends are likely to burn ----if not actually to roast—some of their authors.
That " Fashion " Street, Spitalfields, however good the bodies, wheels, and vehicles which come out of a certain works there may be, is badly misnamed. That the L.G.O.C. is sorry now that it did not register an L.G.H.C.
Many talks about bigger outputs and about the people who are going to produce them.
That for so long as Kensington's determination to keep Qut the trams is maintained the present excellent series of motorbus services throughout the whole district will be the reward.
That the campaign in favour of railless electric traction is to be prosecuted with renewed tenacity— chiefly because it may provide rescue developments for existing undertakings which are doing badly.
That whilst any fitter or mechanic in the U.K. is glad enough to have a bicycle on which to go to and from his work, thousands of like men in the U.S.A. are accustomed to use their own motor runabouts.
That, if we except the fictitious motorbus boom of the first three months in 1906, orders for all types of commercial motors this June-August have been considerably in excess of those placed during any successive three months whatsoever.
That the C.M.U.A. Committee will proceed to the election of some 25 new members on the 6th prox., and that 21 11s. 6d. to the end of the year (inclusive of entrance fee) is therefore regarded with favour by new owners who actively study their own interests.