One Hears— From Mrs. Tolfree frequently.
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Unpleasant murmurings in Whitehall.
Every day from the spring-wheel fiend.
That drivers are "going slow" near Esher.
That steam buses are "hot stuff" just now.
That beer by motor economizes cellar-space.
That there are no high hopes for home rails.
Of many heavy-vehicle parties for the Derby.
Of many experiments with drivers' weird fuels. That greengrocers like second-hand L.G.O. chassis.
That it is little use to repair the roads and to leave the old tramlines.
That they all have their eyes on the converted taxi delivery-van scheme.
That the last man to take a lesson to heart is usually the one most in need of it.
That the L. and N.W.Ry. employs only four times as many men as the L.G.O.C.
That only in the early days of anything have we to accept Nature's way of doing it.
That in future the dictaphone is to be blamed for misprints, and not the compositor.
That most commercial men wonder why any speedometer dial has a scale up to 100 m.p.h.
That joints on gas mains can be made with rubber when the benzole is washed out of the gas.
That some newspaper proprietors are thinking of bidding for poster spaces on motorvans.
That the "CM' staff cartoonist has been peti tioned to get to work again, as well as " G.A.S.'
That the Palladium autovan showrooms, and chief selling address, remains at 378 384, Euston Road.
That the Westminster Council drivers sometimes work 75 hours per week on the night shift, the while without definite meal-times.
That country motorbus traffic is hastening the clay of the bituminous carpeted-road, but that they now often run on pounded earth.
That Major J. N. C. Kennedy, one time a prominent Member of Committee of the Motor Union, is now assistant to the electrical-engineer-in-chief of the L. and N.W.R.
That the Road Board may, if the Croydon Corporation's relief-road scheme be sanctioned by the L.G.B., grant a further £16,000 for additional widenings near Purley Corner.
OF very considerable extensions of motor delivery in the Home Counties, and that this will not be undertaken by newcomers, but will be a remarkable joint development on the part of existing carrying interests. Them at lunch.
Of B-types for the Balkans.
Of subsiding subsidies again.
That good cigars are good dispute settlers.
That too few men can read balance-sheets.
That. motor delivery keers package capital down.
Of a growing briskness in demand for scrap rubber.
That unpin-actuality is the thief of other people's time.
That the lady-chauffeur is not likely to become the fashion.
That this year's Dennis sports will excel all their forerunners.
That dust coats are at last in greater request than mackintoshes.
That if you are wanting spares, study the advertisement pages.
That the jobmasters have cleaned up the summer char-k-bancs bodies.
Of a controversy as to the best place for the mirror below any motorbus canopy.
That nervous pedestrians have been seen to fall flat at the sound of some hooters.
That new company proposals for the absorption of old L.G.O. chassis are in hand.
That it looks as if the Inst. A.E. party will be overbanqueted and feted in the U.S.A.
That the Standard Oil Co. helps to keep the 22 candle-power gas laws in force in the U.S.A.
That the "W. and G." outside-the-combine delivery vans were quickly noticed by those inside it.
Of suggestions to tax motorbus increased-traffic receipts due to fine weather as unearned increment.
Of many satisfactory engagement results, both for employer and employed, every week from THE COMMERCIAL Mount classified advertisements.
That Willcox oils were used by Messrs. Cannon and Gaze's winning team, and by Messrs. Spiers and Pond's team of runners up, at the Parade.
That favourable Overseas notices of the Whit-Monday Parade will admirably supplement the many excellent ones that appeared in the Home dailies.
From "The Pall Mall Gazette." "Twelve months hence a museum will be the only niece where one will be able to see a horse 'bus in London."
From "The Morning Post" of Friday last. " Saturday, '24th (to ThurrIlay, 20th).--Fifteenth Anniversary of the Liverpool Self-propelled Traffic Association's Heavy Vehicle Trials in 189S."