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10th October 1912
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

-Punch's chuckle.

'The testing of B2000—hardly.

Half-inch cuts and coarse feeds.

That empty bodies make the most noise.

Cheery greetings at the Ferodo stand.

_Little noise from much moving machinery.

.Complaints of some stands' not being numbered.

That the Exhibitors' Room is the place to get your man.

Of horses acting as self-starters with disastrous results.

That nobody knows the actual income of a taxi'driver, not even his wife.

That most of the machine tools are shown turning ,out motor component parts.

"Oh :" from the ladies, at the Oxy-Acetylene cutting .stand during demonstration hours.

That the greater part of the exhibits were taken to 'Olympia by self-propelled vehicles.

That great attention is being paid by manufacturers to smaller portable labour-saving tools.

That, on some of the cold days, the furnaces in 'operation are the most popular stands at Olympia.

That one of the most ingenious machines in the ;Show is the capstan designed by Mr. Herbert Austin.

That Mr. J. Frost, of co-operative repute, has been transferred from Manchester to the Dennis headquarters at Guildford.

That the new Penge motor fire-engine had a 'night out " last week whilst on a trial run owing to the bad state of the roadway.

That there is a smart Unic cab which carries a crest representing, a large billed bird, and underneath, the words 1 Veritas omnia vineit."

That one of the hardening furnaces is in great ,demand by the mechanics at the show for toastmaking purposes, but that the pyrometer made by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Co., Ltd., is not required for this purpose. " Sithee, lad" at Olympia.

Of Turkey's transport troubles.

Quite a lot of grumbling ab:mt July, 1913.

That some self-starters have a motorcar attachment.

Of the purchase, lock, stock and barrel of a London tramway company.

That "K. T." Fenner has driven to Nice, via the Alps, on his special tires.

That most sellers of supplies like to refer to the L.6.0.0. or to Scotland Yard.

That the cows strenuously objected to treatment by commercial motor at Bourges.

That Turkey's motor transport will be more useful at home than it would have been in Tripoli.

That Mr. W. H. Willcox is finding the air at Penzance very beneficial after an attack of the " flu."

That by far the largest proportion of the inquiries at Olympia so far have been from motor interests.

That Lieut. Sladen, L.C.C.M.F.B., is getting on "nicely thank you," and has left the nursing home.

That old carbide tins are useful receptacles for holding supplies of small components and such-like stores.

That just as the Underground swallowed the L.6.0.0.' so the latter is now busy digesting the smaller bus companies.

That Mr. A. Douglas Barty, chief engineer of the F.I.A.T. cab concern, is now back in harness after a very severe illness iextend!,ing over j four months.

That in its anxiety to fill out the motor agony column, -one of the Radical daily papers included the sad story of a boy who fell from a sixth-storey window, under the heading of "Terrible Motor Fatality," That if the order record of the first two or three days at Olympia be maintained, the Show will be the most successful, from the exhibitors' point of view, ever held, and that the bulk of the orders for machine tools were placed by commercial-vehicle manufacturers.


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