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That two British makers have put designers on to alcohol-engine work.
That a bus proposition in an industrial centre is not always a paying one.
That Army Service Corps drivers may not salute when at the steering wheel.
That the L.G.O.C. is now using petrol at the rate of 13i million gallons a year, That Mr. Thomas Lake Aveling is cruising in his steam yacht off the South Coast.
That young Tom has succeeded the late Mr. Chittenden on the A. and P. board at Rochester.
That Commercars have given the lead in using illustrated booklets peculiar to particular trades.
That Mr. James Edward Ransome has, happily, effected a complete recovery from his smash of June last.
That road surveyors are out for .33d. per bus-mile towards the maintenance of country roads, but that it's too much.
That it would be rank folly needlessly to turn traction-engine men into enemies of high-speed buses, lorries and vans.
That benzole in average and unadjusted carburetters runs a motorvan fully 22 per cent, farther than equal quantities of petrol will.
That the Road Board has been inundated with apprehensive protests concerning a certain comprehensive map of all-England motorbus services.
That the present price of creosote is aid_ per gallon " naked " at the works, and ld. a gallon more if it has been put through the refrigerator to remove the naphthalene.
That it is seldom long after its delivery before a miltor ambulance or fire-engine has to answer a call, but that the tragic touch is seen when the call comes before delivery has been effected.
That London borough councils have already received £103,662 in grants from the Road Board. £51,500 in addition as loans free of interest, and a further 217,000 by way of loans at interest. That Patrick has joined the Napier staff. Of a bolt as a " screw-nail " in New York.
That the two Tilling chassis are very creditable jobs.
That Brazil and Russia are buying fairly heavily from Germany.
That German buyers are fixing up agencies for British-built parcelcars.
That the L.G.O. likes Derihon air-hardened steel, and that it lets 117 tons tensile, That more people are finding the -wisdom of carrying a fire-extinguisher on any commercial motor.
That the L.C.C. registration index marks, which have now reached " L.K.," threaten to exhaust the alphabet.
That some of the best and biggest road-transport men of the old school continue to regard commercialmotor makers as infants.
That civilian drivers and their mates will receive a special money grant, at this year's Army Manceuvres, of is. 6d. each per day, in addition to rations.
That Mr. Kellaway is pullinF hard to impart his tone to the London 'Traffic Accident Committee's report, and that the document should be out before the House rises.
That William Hancock ,and Co., Ltd., of the Brewery, Cardiff, bought the 25 h.p. Albion chassis at the Show—through R. E. Jones (Garages), Ltd., of Swansea.
A tale of a conductor of an early Pioneer motorbus, who, after a bad, collision in the Edgware Road, was told by a police inspector, "There's no need to be frightened, my man, so stop trembling," and who re. plied, " This ain't tremblin', sir, it's vibration. I'm a conductor on a Pioneer."
From "The Engineer" of the 25th July :— " The War Office subvention, to which allusion has been made on several occasions in this article, has opened up quite a large, if not entirely new, field for worm gearing, in order to obtaln the final reduction necessary with the live axle." This should encourage the M.T.C. still further. --En. "CM."]