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That the Dennis sports and smoking-concert are fixed for the 20th August. • That our Business Department has more than one inquiry for advertisement pages to face " One Hears—."
That Aveling and Porter, Ltd., means to push the sale uf its steam wagons in France, Spain and other European countries. * • • That proposals to buy up the output of certain large and well. established manufacturers of commercial motors struck unre sponsive chords. •
That the deliberacy of the Daimler Co plan of development on the commercial-vehicle side is so marked as almost to be exasperating in its positive slowness to more than one individual at the Coventry works.
That Renard trains will not be used for the projected Kent motor. transport undertaking, and that writers who thought this system would do for the work probably were not sufficiently informed of the terminal conditions which have to be met.
That the Kent scheme, which has taken more than a year in the working-up, is likely to call for the supply of 40 petrol wagons, 14 steam wagons and six tractors, and that everything about it indicates careful preparation on sound lines by the promoter and his advisers.
That, in a manner comparable to that of a lady who consents to be taken to supper where she is sure to be agreeably shocked, " The Extractor " not unwillingly accepts invitations to be one at a week-end golf party of business friends who may want to place a long series.
That Mr. Rees Jeffreys will begin his Road-Board duties at Brussels, where he will attend the Second International Road Congress in company with Sir George Gibb and Col. Crompton, that his arduous labours as secretary of the Motor Union ceased on Thursday of last week, and that he is happily get ting quite fit again. * • •
That Julian Halford, when he stepped off the R.M.S. "Lusitania " at Eishguard on Monday afternoon last, was met iii the Cunard tender by the Editor of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. and that a small part of the subsequent long journey up to town by G.W. Railway witnessed his subjection to the process of " interviewing "—see page 372.
That the 1911 Parade of the C..M.U.A. will cause even professional opponents of the Association to cheer.
That some clever designs for stands at next year's Olympia Show have this early been sketched out by enausiastic sales men. * , * That No. 1 of the Leyland light-model motorbus with worm drive is already the most-popular vehicle on the Kingsway route. • • That the success of the Royal-Show Issue was such that our circulation in Liverpool and District has gone up with a bound.
That the motor fire-engine demonstration at Bournemouth, on the 14th inst., will be quite one of the best " side shows " during aviation week.
That the Secretary of the R.A.C.' who suffered an unpleasant touch of chill a week or so back—immediately prior to the Chester meeting—has quickly recovered.
That Julian Halford, who is now busily occupied at Luton, London, and elsewhere, will return to the States on the 13th August, and that he will take out his wife and family.
That many who are inside the " Shell " business have been simply dumbfounded at the way the jobbers have run up the price of shares to nearly 4, but that other people believe the property is intrinsically good enough to justify that price.
That one of the big rubber-tire makers in Great Britain has not bought. a single pound of rubber since that commodity went above 4s., and that this fortunate concern, whose next dividend should reflect the margins on its stocks, has still got sm-eral cellars full of the raw material.
That ;(1. per mile off the tire bill of a motorcab company is capable cf achievement by purchasers of Pfleumatic-filled covers, and that none of the old-style difficulties with earlier tilling materials—such as crystallization, flats, excessive hardness and lack of uniformity—will be experienced.
That the L.G.O.C. catch line—" Open Air to Everywhere" —is not sufficiently noised abroad at present, and that it is good enough to compete on hoardings, wall-statibns, or the company's motorbuses themselves with the uft-repeated and prominent advertisement, of the tubes which reads " Underground to Anywhere."