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That dockside carriers are now satisfied.
That on the spot is the best place to be. That yesterday's ballot caused deep breathing.
That motors participated in the Bolton parade on May Day.
That, Mr. Charles Cornmercar Thompson is popular in Garristown.
That power from tidal waters may one day drive London motorbuses.
That dust will continue to be raised and laid, and not only on the roads.
That the speed of those motorbuses en route to Gateshead was quite satisfactory.
That people who write in lighter vein refer to the game of skittles played with lamp-posts.
That the S,M.M.T. has voted £100 to the R.I.A. for 1913, and that the vote from the R.A.C. is £150.
That Mr. W. L. Day, vice-president of the U.S.A. General Motors Co., has been learning at Liverpool.
That some people forget the old-established joint passenger and mail services of the G.W.R.—not to mention others.
That a few critics think a warning device peculiar to motorbuses needs to be of the continuous-alarm type, but that others don't.
That battery vans are being tried in New Zealand, and that the Dunedin City Council is giving free current for a year to help one test against petrol. * That anybody who wants information about the Parma agrimotor trials of June-October next can get it from the Italian Chamber of Commerce, London. That motorbus maps are popular with excursionists.
That it is easier to write 4va1tzes than to sell chassis.
That one of Pickford's vans ran into the front of a pawn-shop last week.
That there's more in this front-drive business than a lot of people think.
From a well-known maker, of "prospective rear and front. views" of a new model.
That after the last Manchester Show, there were over 60 holes to make good in the City Hall floor.
That, as a rule, if there's a dispute between two people for the front seat on a country bus, the longer fare gets it.
That the platforms of a good many weighing machines still require to be timber-decked underneath the plate.
That the suffragettes nearly captured Mr. Lloyd George in a. motorcar recently, and that they meant to feed him forcibly.
That the latest services in North Wales are those between Llanelly and Cross Hands, and between Neath and Pontardawe.
That it's just on the cards that Olympia will be a bakehouse in July, but that Mr. Blackie is trying to contrive nice cool decorations.
That a messenger boy was overheard to remark that a certain motorvart would not go because somebody had stolen the incubator.
That the minimum of 4 per cent, increase in railway rates from the 1st July next will bring about a further boom in commercial-motor orders.
That anything the National Motor Cab Co., Ltd., may do on the motorvan side will not amount to the institution of a London parcel-delivery service.
From "The Straits Times" (issue of the 5th April) :—" Commercial Motors in Malaya.—Considerations affecting the use of motor wagons and cultivators for work in connection with rubber estates lend quick interest to the 1913 issue of "THE. COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S" Overseas Annual. This journal is justifiably accepted as the authority on the class of vehicle implied in its title, and its weekly issues keep one abreast of what is going on in all parts of the world in commercial motor enterprise, The Overseas Annual, however, is an epitome of all that ; it marks, year.by year, the progress of events and the march of improvement in the various branches of motors for utility. "This .latest issue is divided into sections, so that the reader can at a glcmce focus his attention on any particular branch of motoring he is interested in, and each section is carefully compiled with a view to giving as much information as possible in a limited space. As most commercial houses are interested, or likely to be, in this matter, the Annual should he hung in every office."