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Of price-maintenance plans.
Of further Dennis orders coming from the Soudan. That the C.M.U.A. membership will soon top 500.
That Eastbourne motorbuses ran 234,912 miles during the last financial year.
That the C.P.O. is rapidly becoming one of the staunchest backers of good roads.
That somebody in Rio de Janeiro is about to pick zip cheaply the nucleus of a huge motor-transport concern.
That the pedestrian subway at "The Elephant," South London, is principally used by children who play marbles there.
That numbers of owners have inquiries out. for estimates of petrol-storage equipments, and that the Uxbridge works are extra busy.
That Alfred Herbert's auxiliary works at Coventry are the Mecca of many an engineer seeking ideas for the latest methods of up-to-date shop construction.
That London-Bristol holds the record in motormail jobs at a round 120 miles as the mean of the two jourrues, the down trip bringing up the average run by reason of calls en route.
That all the while they keep making a fuss about the alleged parsimony of the Road Board road surveyors in Co. Kerry are keeping their roads more or less fit to bear motor traffic.
That some omnei s prefer to provide glass windscreens for their drivers, because of the extra degree of smartness imparted to the vehicles, whereas a majority continues to favour screens of metal or of waterproofed material used in conjunction with ample canopies.
That the Napier people have been negotiating for a factory site at Montreal.
That, Frank Searle and Fred Lancliester are strenuously collaborating to certain Daimler ends.
That the wTiole of Sandliach and district paid a last tribute to the late Mr. Edwin Foden on Tuesday.
That both fatal and non-fatal traffic accidents are relatively more numerous in Paris than in London.
That the Egyptian State, Railways might do worse than go in for a few motor vehicles of various kinds for tributary purposes.
That heavy (rank on the Eltham-Sidcup road is already playing havoc with some of the Road Board's 23 experimental lengths of material.
That Sir Edgar Speyer means to amalgamate London's overground and underground passenger-earrying undertakings if he can, but that the cold shoulder will be given to the L.C,C.
That Sir John McDougall, of L.C.C. renown, is evincing quite a parental interest in the subject of netrol storage, and that he is advocating the undertaking of storage duties by the L.C.C.
That the L.C.C. has bought five Leyland fireengines, and that the decision to have more than one source of supply where the requirements are so large is admitted to have been wisely taken.
That a single brickyard at Peterborough requires as many as S00 railway trucks a day to get rid of its output, but that it got not a single truck on some days during and after the strike.
That whilst the Great Central Railway may very properly be congratulated upon its illuminated sign in the Marylebone Road. the company is going a bit too far when it labels its boy-propelled tricycle-carriers the " lightning" parcels express.