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29th February 1912
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That Mr. Walter Emmanuel has said they are good.

That coal-strike fears may produce a crop of peculiar promotions.

That the India Office will shortly dispatch a Dennis fire-engine overseas.

That an eight-tonner petrol vehicle is shortly to be built by a leading manufacturer.

That one of the latest uses for motorvans is in the delivery of show-cases, shop fronts, and facias.

That it sometimes takes years to find paying work for a fleet of contractor-owned motor vehicles.

That a big job is now a-going in the upper strata of the London Underground's over-carrying undertaking.

That one leading British maker now quotes for no fewer than 76 different types of complete motor vehicles.

That Colonel Crompton prefers the words "night shelter" vice "night storage," and that it is presumed soup will -be provided.

That this year's agricultural-motor trials at Bourges will see the internal-combustion debut of at least one British firm of standing.

That there are rumours that the General Motor Cab Co. may acquire a fleet of four-cyUnder cabs of a type which is new to them.

That under an Act of William IV. no carriers are responsible to a greater value than £10 for any undeclared and uninsured parcel.

That the use of motorvans and motorvans only has enabled " C. P. and Co." to carry 112 lb. for 35 and more miles at a charge of Is. 6d.

That ltIckford Smith and Co., Ltd., of Ca,mborne, Cornwall, is the latest company to purchase a Lacre van for the conveyance of explosives..

That quite a number of county and borough surveyors are purchasing water-ballast motor rollers, and that the Borough of Hornsey is amongst the latest of them.

That the underground railways are to put down a lot more escalators, the authorities having at last realized that they must live up to the reputation of their omnibus collaborators by " carrying you all the way."

That the Roads Improvement Association has. appointed Colonel Crompton, Mr. Percy Boulnois, Mr. Edward Manville and Mr. Shrapnel! Smith to give evidence against the clauses in the L.C.C. Bill which concern Parliamentary sanction for trailer tramcars.

That a certain big commercial-motor factory is regarded in high financial quarters as good enough for purchase by way of entry into another branch of engineering activity, and that the respective chairmen have met several times about the projected deal That " go and see" is the best show way.

That Sir Edgar Speyer did not either directly or indirectly buy any L.G.O.C. stock until quite recently.

That a fleet of steam wagons in the service of one large owner both gets the biscuit and takes the cake.

That it is better to undertake a removal by two vans at five miles an hour, than by one van at ten miles an hour.

That the L.C.C. will not support the Road Board's scheme for a great road to the west unless permission be given to lay tram rails along it.

That Mr. B. J. Angus Shaw, late of the Arrol-Johnston Co., Ltd., has been appointed general manager at the works or the L.G.O.C., at WaIthanastow.

That many company promoters do not yet know what it means to win one's spurs in Lancashire, and that the process may be a distinctly-painful one.

That the week ends are really the strong ends in char-a-bancs work, and that it is not a bad plan temporarily to run out of goods and to change bodies.

That Dixon's first salesmanship competition has been won by Mr. A. E. Elderkin, the Car and General manager at Bedford, with an essay on "The sale of' a motorcar policy."

That the London drivers of a certain French-made cab are supplied with a comprehensive book of instructions printed in French, but that no French is the patois of the London cabby.

That Mr. J. Owen, in "The Westminster Gazette,' has been advancing the view that commercial motors are not yet right, but that he none the less agrees that they are well worth having.

That a curious situation has arisen with regard to renewal of the licences of the motorcabs belonging to the General Motor Cab Co., as the Commissioner will not renew them if the ownership changes.

That certain shareholders in the Provincial Motor Cab Co., Ltd., are interested to notice that the cost of their Charron cabs appears to have been written off during the recent General Motor Cab Co.'s reconstruction.

That there is great disinclination on the part of the majority of commercial-vehicle drivers to accept service under the War Office subvention scheme, and that most of the men have no desire to risk active service.

That the Richmond (Surrey) councillors would do well if they either laid Kew Road with bituminous macadam or wooden blocks, and that they can find out a good bit concerning economies under modern traffic conditions from the Barnes U.D.C.

That the prospectus of the Provincial General Omnibus Co., Ltd., will be issued next week, that the authorized capital will probably be 2300.000. that two L.G.O.C. directors will be on the Board, that chassis from the Walthamstow factory will be ordered, and that the man behind the promotion does not want anybody to know his name.


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