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From Manchester.
Another piston ring for a large port..
That the band was amongst the ba-..J tires. That Avon ran to gold on its tire exhibits.
That the hansom still lingers in the• Provinces.
That there were several cases of band tiredness.
That. the Austin engine testers mustn't throw stones.
That there are always late arrivals and always will be.
That the Westinghouse Co. is bringing out a lighting set.
That many radiator filler cap designs are " top hole."
That there was a number of examples of bad tinder tiring. • That the sun did shine one day last year in Manchester.
That the Austin power-loading device is very neatly disposed.
That there is another Garrett steamer at the back of Stand 9.
That a famous strain-wagon builder is designing a new steam bus.
That the De Nevers stand looked like the entrance to a tube railway.
That four new Wolseley chars-h-banes are for delivery to Llandudno That there was a lot of overlapping of exhibits on to other people's stands.
That the WolseIey Co. and Clayton's have received the latest subsidy orders.
That the B.T.H. Co. has secured a very large order from the L.G.O.C. for lighting sets.
That the building line" down the sides of the City Hall was not strictly adhered to.
That many engine and chassis parts were more accessible than some of the vehicles.
That it's time there was an Association for the Prevention of Chassis Overcrowding.
That one salesman was carrying a Leyland steamer round under his arm at the City Hall.
That when one gets wet through at Manchester, the wise thing to do is to Rusholme and Exchange.
That one man at Manchester said he always found the roads wave—after a dinner at the Midland.
That char-à-banes steps are not designed for hobbleskirt wearers, and that one exhibit had its step 42 ins.
frora-the ground. . .
That the Maudslay 30-seater char-b-bancs body built
• in mahogany was the only one of its class staged. _0_ •
That the Dennis and Leyland exhibitors hoped the Daimler load of cotton would spontaneously combust so that they might put it out.
That it's a great pull. for Tilling-Stevens to be able to talk to municipal engineers in watts and amperes instead of foot-pounds and ton-miles.
That Mr. Blackie of the S.M.1VI.T. handled the Rusholme fire-insurance business very smartly, and that the Manchester postal authorities know him by
name now. •
That, at the Pleasure Car Show at. Manchester, one of the attendants at "The Motor ". stand was continually being asked, in the local vernacular : "Which is the entrance out I"
That Faulkner's, of Manchester, are now discarding sonic waterside cranes that were originally put up by the Duke or Bridgwater, and that the old gentleman appears to have made a very good job of them.
From Elsewhere.
That Pollard's pleased.
That. Blagwar benzole is a big market. That petrol has troubles—but so has coal. That Overseas .weight explained the wait. That some lorries will soon be Morocco bound. Of a new thermostatic petrol-paraffin vaporizer.
Of sensitized body panels for the direct photographing of designs thereon.
That the chickens have come home to roost with many American truck manufacturers.
That railway-locomotive maintenance in .England averages more than 3d. per train-mile.
That pram tires differ from band tires in that, while the tires are single, the load is often twin.
That 20 new buses are to be sent. to the district round Derby by the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd.
O r steering wheels and other parts made of solidified milk, but that they won't touch the cream of the
market.
That the Mazda-lamp people have paid the latest compliment to " One Hears," and have done it on Napier lines. • From a• well-known manufacturer, that many owners of Medium-sized pleasure ears would economize if they always hired taxicabs.
That brake-wear en electrics may want reckoning, and that reversal or current has yet• to receive legal sanction as one of the two brakes required.
That a bus conductor's rebuke to a heavily-laden, wculd-be passenger was : "You can't come on 'ere with that. parcel, but don't go and hire a pantechnicon just to spite us."