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That the salesman wanted is the clincher.
That three 1912 plants are approaching the bearing stage.
That Sir picketing " Charles Owens has described "peaceful as an alliterative lie.
That orders for small vehicles of the box-car type are being refused by one firm at the rate of several a day. • That Mr. W. E. Pearmain, lately identified with Sentinel vehicles, is taking charge of a new haulage concern.
That Long Acre has lately been as troublesome in the matter of some approaches as many a famous golf-course.
Of an enterprising advertiser who supplements his ordinary space with a small par amongst the sundry advertisements in the " C.M., ' and that he finds this plan effective and quite inexpensive.
That Mr. Aubrey Llewellyn Coventry Fell has decided not to offer a motorbus to the Motor Museum, but that, as other people do not wish to make themselves foolish, he has not been asked to reserve an L.C.C. tramcar.
That it was a Mr. Hartshorn, at Maesteg, in South Wales, who told an Easter audience that "there will be a general strike of transport workers early in the summer—a struggle beside which the present coal strike will pale into insignificance."
That some people think the railway companies of this country have acted so consistently in the interests of the public at large, instead of in the interests of, say, the shareholders, that last year's bargain in regard to the raising of rates should be carried out to the full, and that it probably will be so carried out. That not every herald blows straight.
That the railway loss during the coal strike was £100,000 a day.
That there is six months difference between a, cabby's poncho and his tunic.
From an American contemporary : " Hail Agrimotors ' and ' Autoporters '—fearful results."
No reason for relaying of asphalt in Holborn thoroughfares in which motorbus traffic predominates.
That the New York fire brigade will have 150 motor fire-engines in service before the end of next year.
That the new Diirr carburetter has puzzled a few investietors already, and that it will soon discomfit certain fuel interests.
That petrol at 2s. a gallon for private owners is quite on the cards for August, but that the business man will not be put on the top.
That no L.C.C. Traffic Board and no L.C.C. tramcars over Southwark Bridge are the latest shocks to Sir John Benn's residue of equanimity.
That the Wolseley Co. has contributed its first three cars to the Motor Museum, and that other makers would follow suit if they could trace their early productions.
That the use of motorvans has enabled the Westminster authorities to collect all domestic and trade refuse before 10 a.m., with the result that there are neither eyesores nor dust-sores when the morning traffic begins to thicken.
That few people realize how frequently L.C.C. tramcars occupy approximately one-third of the length of any thoroughfare, or that motorbuses can do the same work, with less obstruction to the general traffic, whilst at the same time occupying a less proportion of the total length of the highways concerned.