Parade Jottings.
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It is a pity about. those Shell horses.
The asphalt was rather too hot for comfort.
Tilling's mail vans were well painted all over.
Aveling and Porter's had the smartest tractor.
There was an absence of military control this year.
There is only one '1" in assistant chief marshal.
It. is a pity Tate's Thornyeroft was not on parade.
Mr. steam-wagon Brassington arrived on his side-car.
The military hospital inmates hardly knew we were all there.
No parade so far has attracted anything like so much public interest.
The strike made less difference to the parade than it did at Regent's Park.
The cinematograph film of the parade will not be shown at the Palladium until Friday.
The marshals, during chalkingout operations, received several coppers from passers-by.
Extremes meet, although the motor hearse and the Simonis fireengine were not next to each other.
Bryant and May's Albion van (No. 30) bore a painted representation of a matchbox of which the perspective was abominable.
Full advantage was taken of the opportunity to distribute suitable literature to the drivers by several firms whose interests are theirs.
The local publichouses did not know of the parade until the assembly had well started, but steps were soon taken to enlighten their ignorance.
It is reported that a lady resident in the neighbourhood approached a marshal who had his bucket of distemper with him and asked for a '' penn'orth of milk."
Most of the drivers came well equipped with families and provisions. Scores of empty ginger-beer bottles and a few beer bottles were thrown over the Embankment into the Thames.