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That MuDiner's of Birmingham are building another " motor bank " for Farrow's.
That the L.G.O.C. is about to test a belt-driven bus and a " S.M." steam bus.
That the Fir-brigade section of "The Dominion and Overseas Special " will be one of the best.
That Messrs. Lloyd and Mister. of Wood Green, are busy with orders for petrol railcars of all sizes.
That Glasgow's firemaster will get at least one fine new station for his growing fleets of motor engines.
That more business will come home from the Natal branch of the South-African Government. in May or June next.
That there is sometimes verbal confusion between Alley's and Halley's, but that the letters really seldom get mixed in Glasgow.
That Fowlers of Leeds are still going on with their internaloombustion experiments, and that Avelings of Rochester have been bitten the same way.
That new warehouses in Manchester are being designed to allow easy means of ingress and egress for motor wagons to and from the loading ways and platforms.
That Fodens think THE COMITY-Rum. Moron, has at last said the right thing in commenting upon the challenge which threeton rubber-tired steamers are offering to three-ton petrul lorries.
That one large motorcab owner states that any new vehicles which he may buy will not be made with collapsible hoods. but that he thinks he will have them fur-lined for the next " summer " season.
That hard-cure Para rubber will be down to 6s. per pound within six months but that October, at the last desperate instance of the Brazilian banks, will witness a flickerins revival on the market.
That Messrs. Johnson, Matthey and Co.. who are known to the motor trade principally as IN holesule purveyors of platinum, are now using a 10-cwt. Wolseley moWrvan, but that the van is not always full of platinum.
That there are excellent openings for new wheelwrights' businesses in proximity to any of the L.C.C. large tramway junctions, and that a big stock of new wheels for horse-drawn vehicles should be maintained on the spot.
That people are asking why cast-steel wheels cannot be manufactured in England, the thinness of the webs notwithstanding, and at, a time when the demand runs into the third thousand of sets each year with big immediate advances of custom in sight.
That Mr. Frank Searle has been spending a well-earned respite from work amidst the peaks of Derbyshire. and that his sporting achievements there have ranged from grouse and rabbit shooting to pushing horse-drawn vehicles up hills in the neighbourhood of Buxton.
That London Borough Councils intend to apply to the Road Board for allocations from the 250,000 odd per annum which is yielded by motorbuses under the petrol tax, and that the motorbus companies will be able to give feeling recommendations as to where the money should he spent.
That the facts that a new Connolly tire was stolen—together with a wheel-barrow—from the outside of MilnesDaimler's London premises last week, and that the wheelbarrow was promptly recovered by the police, merely show that the culprit soon got tired of the barrow. That quite a lot of people have been asking questions about America.
That Mr. L. J. Martin is on his way to the U.S.A. with a three-ton Atlas chassis, to complete important businees there.
That the conversion and company-enlarging stage in commercial motoring will be reached about the Spring of 1912.
That even Mr. Harvey du Cros won't be able to prevent a warm time in the old town when dear and dirty Dublin gets its taxicabs.
That £12 a week represents the minimum weekly earnings of each of three Calthorpe cabs which are in regular service at Birmingham.
That one way to make a petrol engine " officially " silent at low vehicle-speeds is to give it plenty of fuel and no extra air, but that this is not a service condition.
That the motorbus scheme for the Cardigan-Fisliguard-St. David's area is still in the air, but the Great Western Railway Co. may yet decide to monist their own ideas on the subject.
That one " Knowledge of London " school for intending taxicab drivers was, on a recent occasion, remarkably anxious to dispose of its goodwill to another establishment undertaking similar instruction.
That the taxi-drivers' secretaries and presidents are having " goes" at one another all the time, and that even their socalled " worst enemy " is forgotten during these all-important personal struggles for existence.
That Jessop's famous " heat-treated " motor, tool and other steels are made on the " Brightside " of Sheffield, but that a visitor to the busy foundry is prompted to wonder what the dark side of the cutlery city is like!
That the efforts of certain motorcab Trades-union officials to provide the Editor of this journal with ready-made brothersin-law and other relations in the cab and bus trade have not as yet borne any fresh or definite results.
That many London cabowners are finding that the dispatch of one of our pamphlets, "Twenty Points for Taxicab Users," to uninformed hirers who lodge imaginary complaints, effects a considerable saying in type-writer ribbons.
That there's going to be a fight at Weymouth about the town's public-service transport, and that councillors who favour the motorbus have armed themselves with copies of a paper which was recently put forward by the Editor at Brussels.
That an Albion general-utility vehicle has fur some years won golden opinions and saved golden sovereigns at the Staveley collieries, owing to the dispatch and economy with which it carts round—according to requirements—the wages, gangs of men, the directors and various other loads.
That a thoroughly-qualified general manager of both commercial and engineering experience happens to be available to accept a new berth, and that his record is such as to commend his claims most highly to the directors of any company who may happen to be "looking round " at the moment for the right class of man to relieve them of both labour and responsibility.
That, with characteristic absence of regard for convention, the International Correspondence Schools, Ltd., which is busy perfecting its course of instruction for would-be taxidrivers, engaged a veteran horsecabby to assist in the compilation of a " Enowledge of London " text-book, and that the elevation of this gentleman to temporary scholastic rank caused him " to celebrate" to such an extent that the school managers had to dispense with his services after two days.