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from the seaside, about the Christmas tide.
6 not intruded to he the place for what one knows.
That original holders ot L.G.O.C. stock have been ave. [ging.
That bitumen is proving to be a better road-hinder than either pitch or tar.
That horselesa Sunday " in London has already heroine almust. a commonplace.
That the dates for the North of England Motor Show at Nfanchester, will be the 17th to 25th pros.
That mo.st drivers and owners endorse our last week's theme amnt the wisdom of no name but not no number. • That journeys upon the Brighton Road ever were both luckiand unprofitable for commercial-motor enterprise, right away back to the old Vanguard days.
That " The Extractor " has been having the time of his life in Switzerland, and that nobody knows exactly when he will make up his mind to come home again. * That depreciation is beginning to assume a serious aspect with regard to large percentages of the fleets of certain motorrob undertakings, both in London and the Provinces, That many a driver, when in a tight place at a street turn inn forgets to use his voice to warn the indifferent pedestrian. lint that. there is no law or regulation against that neutral emirse.
That the Great Ea-stet n London Motor Omnibus Co.. Ltd.. will shortly offer B100,000 of its ordinary :PA shares for publie subscription_ and that the interim dividend is at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum.
Growing evidence that congestion and °Fish action due I., the L.C.C. electric tramcars are creating a body of public feeling which is undoubtedly hostile to further street-railway txtensions in the Metropolis.
That there will bent; house-warming function at the R.A.C.'s new clubhouse in Pall Mall. and that this important removal will be fornially intimated by a briefly-worded notice, on the doer of 119. Yirca.dilly, towards the end of Min-ch.
That the Inland Revenue authorities are inclined to think that motiircabs which do actually " ply for hire " from private stands, but for which licences will not be granted by local authorities, should be allowed the petrol rebate, and that it is hoped Mr. Lloyd George will agree.
That the leading steamship companies know the value of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR from the standpoint of overseas circulation and consequential freights, all of which should not be lost upon manufacturers who want to get into the right medinm for more export and foreign trade.
That some people are aufferingfrom a new disease known as " show heat. ' that by to-morrow, which will be f yday yet another circular " cure " may be advertised in the Press. by way of antidote, and that many folk are merely curious as to the sequel, whilst others are really incurable.
That Mr. W. H. Willcox, who is a p=rstwel yrmeer in heavynnivniiiit circles, spent the Christmas season at the Hotel Metropole, Brighton, but that the Chancellor of the Exchewier wr not there, this time. to he again quietly vet firmly interrogated, by Short (of cocktail celerity), upon the inequities of Form IV.
That Mr. F. A. Dinham. one of the governing directors of Mane and Co., Ltd.. whose belief in motors finds outlets on both the light, and the heavy sides, was also a " Brightman°. Man " (Rio) for the nonce, that he was more than once the centre of gatherings of a quasi-utilitarian or semi-business nature, and that amongst one of these groups were reengnizedMessrs. !*+ xt* !t*x*x-i!*x + !sx ! x*t nat tile iir.tish Motor Cab Co., Ltd., can't get anything like enough drivers for its French cabs.
That the Christmas card distributed by the Metropolitan Fare Register CO.,Ltd-, should not tax imagination.; very severely.
That, during the Christmas half-holiday of the London_ buses, the cabbies did a roaring trade, and that the people behind the whistles almost roared too.
That Price's Patent Candle C.., Ltd., sent the staff a lot of excePent soap for the New Year, and that the sub-editors are now quite a clean-looking lot of fellows.
That: Coan the caster has completely eclipsed his capital scheme of 1910, that his Christmas keepsakes this year are conceived more creditably than ever, and that lie still appears tu cast clean castings.
That all the London evening papers did their best to give the in1-essinn mat the sin mi.. accident on Saturday. in which an electric tramcar ran into a horsed bus from behind and overturned the hors-A vMiel?, was a motorbus catastrophe.
That during the Criristmas deliveries, one of MeNamara's steam wagons was seen to be towin home one-of the same company's large petrol wagons, and' that the driver of the stnamer wore a broad grin on his face throughout the trip.
That one member of the " CM.'' staff spent part. of the recent festive season disguised as a policeman, and that during his period of wcrk he did a few duty dances, effected several arrest', s rved ser,ral stop-noliecs, saluted a, number of people whit wcre not his superior officers, and took rare that there was no undue noise about it.
That the general managers of our leading railways have been discussing the transference of chunks of their parcel-mail traffic to the roads, that it has been under consideration to inform the Postmaster-General that occasional long-distance parcels must he charged at more than the all-round rate el 55 per cent. of the postage, but that the fear that such an ultimatum would lead to enormous increases of road-borne mails seems liludy to stop the delivery of any Eurh threat.
That It is by no means mercury which does the trick in the Fournier thermometer. because this th.ermoatatie-control device, in particular cases, serves to indicate temperatures which demand the employment of other media, to provide the desired fineuess el regulation to meet the lips and &wilt; which experience has brought under the useful influence of these magic bulbs and tubcs, and of their super-saturated fillings, whose fundamental qualities almostgive them feelings. [We have made room for this paragraph, with all reserve, as its writer SilyS he " is quite sure that it wilt he understoed."—Ein]
That the following may prove to be amongst the songs of 1911: "The belle's sighs" (Hoyle-Smith); "Roll on, roll ever" fR. Ford Perkins); " Commercial cares I few no more "
(H. C. B. Underdown); " Bert of Halliwell " (A. Foster); " Quiet Sentinels " (S. E. Alley); " Albion at last " (W. E. Roweliffel ; " Pa meant to do me well " (Raymond Dennis); Foden the king " (C. Davies); " The thorny croft " (Wakefield); " Sing hey for a deep lift " (Merryweather); " Oh, Mr, Dartford Churchill " (J. E. Hall); "-A spring task " (Hoare); " Les comes s'ouvrent h tee merites " (C. Browne); Iv splendid pole-axe " (Fritz Poppet ; " A shell carrier " (F. P. S. Harris-Clayton); " That universal marshal " (W. H. " A vacuum striker " (Squire); " Union Peter " (Walker); " I'm proud of Yorkshire " (F.. A. Jarmain); "
\\'hnt a fills man " Cornoehl " The foster-mother "
Ciritton); "Ransomed by a good child" (Garrett); "Ay, Sir?" (r. R. Odo) " The den is found " (A. T. Erbeenl ; " Aron for evermore (E. E. Dormer); " A bright little Bruhn " (A. flax 'The car 1 love the best" (J. S. Matthews-Argyll) : "The coming of the Renard " (Percy Martin) ; " See, love. I bring thee tires '' (R. Bockemuld); " Tires all the way " (Kahler); " A rieht little tight little Leyland '' (H. Spurrier. Junr.) ; " The British wagoeeers " (B. W. M. Daimler) ; and "Unmindful of the headlights. or the ditch I left behind me " (Anon).