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That Japan—at Rusholme—has been cleared out, in favour of the all-conquering motor.
That a driver, who recently had his van burnt up, is not. after all, to be fined for scorching.
That the makers of " Commer Cars " are now using ‘. Mascot " plugs after an extended trial.
That the artificial cultivation of mushrooms has become more difficult since the advent of commercial motors.
That the Great Western Railway will soon be getting delivery of some of its new three-ton and five-ton petrol lorries.
That the latest method adopted by a taxi-driver, to put a taximeter out of operation, has been to change over the nearside and off-side road wheels.
That the " C.M." has acquired quite a reputation for the finding of suitable men when appointments are vacant on risers' and manufacturers' staffs.
That certain large users of petrol-engined commercial vehicles are asking for sparking plugs with threads other than standard—as a means of insurance against loss.
That the petrol-strainers and drain-cocks had to be removed from the L.G.O. Co.'s Wolseley buses because the cleaners used to " milk " the machines to the tune of hundreds of gallons a year. * • • That a certain engineer-in-charge, who asked the advice of the " C.M.," bought L.G.O. stock at 32 before it dropped to 17-18, that he also held it on the same advice, and that he last week sold out at 92.
That a good way, to prevent men in the shops from cleaning themselves liberally with paraffin, is to substitute a bath of hot caustic soda for the paraffin grease-removing tanks, and that the free ablutions aforesaid are soon checked.
That commercial motors are now seldom bought by big stores merely out of unused horse-renewal appropriations, and that new capital is being motor-voted pretty generally by other hard-headed buyers in several branches of trade.
That Lord Grimthorpe's tenpenny motorcab initial-fare suggestion is welcomed by a number of London owners who feel that the existing owners' association does not " get things done" briskly enough, but that there's a lot to be done to do it. * • • That two horses were seen in Piccadilly at one and the same time on Sunday last, and that the correspondent who alleges this statement as one of fact thinks THE COMMERCIAL MOTOE ehould order some photographs before the opportunity to secure historic reminders slips by.
That motorbuses in Brussels have no Seotland Yard to pass, but that life is made miserable for them for all time after starting by the specific attentions of definitely-allocated gendarmes, that stop-notices are unknown in that city, that undue noise, dropping oil, defective brakes, etc., are punishable by fines, and that the authorities waste no time about collecting the damages according to fixed scales. That the springs in the upholstery of certain motor-cabs were found to be of mild steel.
That many Gunnersbury residents wish the motorbuses earl past Turnhant Green, as the local tramcar service is often disgracefully overcrowded and the track is generally under repair.
That certain makers who failed to get space at Manchest:r intend to make a splash about their vehicles in the two " C.M." issues Nos. 310 and 311, and that they realize that the opportunity there presented is the only way.
That an English engineer-in-charge, who went abroad with a reputation for somewhat-forcible methods, soon after arrival found that, owing to his ignorance of the patois, it saved him much trouble to be obsequiously polite to his employes.
Of a maker who is trying to put ell three buyers about delivery for every vehicle he can turn out, and that there was almost a scrap at the works one day recently when two irate customers met and disputed the " right to work " it on the spot.
'rhat de Havilland, late of the Vanguard, and now of the Army Flying School at Farnborough, had a nasty tumble with his aeroplane last week, but that his previous experience of heavy motoring prepared him for such mishaps with heavier
than-air machines.
Frequent requests, from certain people whose names cannot be found in our business pages, for the addresses and other particulars of users who are mentioned in our pages from time to time, and that this method of catching the eye is a cheap
and a not one.
That rival motorbus companies on the Chatham-Maidstone route maintain a half-hourly service between them, that at each half-hour two vehicles, one belonging to each owner, start together, and that certain local inhabitants think one of them should always have a 15-minute start.
That a deputation of Hendon District Councillors has reen one of the joint managers of the L.G.O.Co., with regard to the suggested extension of a motorbus route to their neighbourhood, and that the " CM." has had a hand in the development of this proposed alternative to trackless trams.
That the files of new specifications of patents are, when laid on the table in the Patent Office, sometimes monopolized for hours by people who, regardless of many others who are waiting, copy out sheet after sheet of matter, and that they should be made to buy copies at 8d. each and take them home.
That there is an excellent picture in last. week's " Fire " of Mr. Harrison Waring his helmet and the rest, of the full uniform pertaining to his position as chief officer of the fire brigade of Waring and Gillow's, of which firm he is perhaps better known as the chief of the Transport Department.
That the truculent attitude towards their employers of many London cabdrivers, owing to their knowledge of the impossibility at present of dispensing with their services, was forcibly illustrated in a large London garage last week, when a driver knocked down a fitter, who, he said, had not carried out his instructions with regard to a certain adjustment that he thought his cab required.