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Of rude letters that do not mend matters.
'Ware the War Office—and what has come over them lately?
A lot of loose fittings rattling on the ton-decks cf some motorbuses.
That nobody may hear anything next week by rea son of the holiday season.
That the row about Kerry roads promises to rival that made by the historic Kilkenny cats.
That Mr. Sydney Jessop Robinson of Sheffield is tending to become an habitue of the R.A.C.
That Foden's Brass Band, like the company's steam wagons, goes down everywhere and up anywhere.
That Mr. R. W. Meade, the President of the New York Transportation Co., is on a visit to London.
That next year's C.M.U.A. parade, after reference to likely entrants, has been fixed for Whit-Monday.
That the Leyland people are not going in for commercial aeroplanes, but that they have ideas of other kinds of flights.
That it is not easy to " muddle through " with mechanical transport at a time when vehicles are in sound commercial demand.
That the Bank-holiday crowd at the R.L.A.S. Bury Show constituted a record in more ways than one, but that nobody took photographs or many orders.
That the consumption of petrol in the U.S.A. exceeds in amount the total for the rest of the world, but that not all of it is consumed by motorcar engines_ That American vehicle builders contemplate the wholesale adoption of worm gearing for motor axles, and that they are sending to the Old Country for the vital parts.
That the present state of unsettlement in the railway and shipping labour worlds has already been the cause of many sudden and serious new inquiries for commercial motors.
That a well-known 'heavy motorist wished he had weighed a bit more when the car in which he was travelling tried conclusions with a tram in the 'Ux bridge Road on Sunday evening last.
That L.G.O.C. takings promise to be highly satisfactory throughoutthe present term of slackness, and that the usual big falling-off is not being experienced this August, although there are bound to be reductions. From a Rochester correspondent, that .Aveling and Porter's first petrol-driven chassis is well advanced.
That a departure of far-reaching magnitude in motor-haulage propositions for New York has been financed in London.
That the Dennis annual sports on the 26th inst. will be a greater success than ever before, and that the prize-delivery will be most graciously undertaken.
That the direct supply of eggs by motor should pay a lot better than that of mineral waters the same way, seeing that the shells have not to be collected when empty.
That the remarkable 40,000-gallon underground petrol installation at Thames Bank Wharf has, since the recent fire there, been closed, by order of the L.C.C., for alterations.
That salesmen are finding early delivery plus reasonable repute a better bait with which to secure orders than old-standing reputation minus any firm guarantee of reasonable delivery.
That we are within measurable distance of the time when horses will have to carry interceptors, and that it will be non-motoring Members of the public who will demand enforcement of the rule.
That more London taxicabbies will spend their August holidays on the Continent this year than has ever been the case before, and that this evidence of bad times for the men should not be overlooked.
That some people were at a loss to understand the "Use the Roof" poster until they read the article, and that they then realized that the object of a poster is to arouse interest, and not to present a contents bill.
That Edison, who has arrived in England and is reported to be telling the old, old story about his light electric accumulator, which he incidentally asserts will revolutionize the taxicab business in London, himself still drives a White steamer.
That, exactly as was forecasted by THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR, the conference scheme between London overground and underground passenger-transport companies has proved ineffective if not abortive--exept digit the bluff helped to kill a certain projected fldtation.
* * * A heavy conundrum asked Why is it that a certain gentleman in the industry nearly equals the Secretary of the R.A.C. divided by two, and who is he? [We are prepared to remit £2 2s. to the reader who first sends in the correct solution before Tuesday next. Our decision to he final.—En.]