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" Look out for the Outlook Number."
Of a fire-engine with a breech block.
In Paris of the Citroen invasion.
Of many " no-show " regrets among users.
Of a proposal to fit speedometers on buses That the French are ahead on front-wheel brakes.
Of several novel hydraulic tipping gears at the Paris Salon.
That the only French-made steam wagon was not represented at the Salon.
That the 2-ton Vulcan is now fitted with supercushion tyres as standard.
That French gas producers are alnicist as large as the vehicles which carry them.
That the inclusion of differential locks in chassis -design is being encouraged in France.
That they are necessary on vehicles going overseas.
• That the largest vehicle shown at Paris—ether than tractor lorries—was the Renault 10-ton tipper.
That passenger trailers are popular in some parts of France; and that they should certainly reduce fares: . That the English idea of the self-contained trailer fire-engine has made a considerable appeal to French designers.
That the reduction in the price of petrol has benefited many of those people who use passenger vehicles in the provinces.
That most of the proposed taxation schemes appear to involve the lightening of the burden on the private car at the expense of the commercial vehicle.
That Manchester taxicab fares are to he raised, as the owners found that the recent voluntaryreductions caused too great a drop in the receipts.
That, the use of the electric •starter far the large engines of heavy motor vehicles will develop, despite the lack of interest at present shown in the subject. —0— That the heavier our motor spirit becomes the more necessary must the electric starter be.
That we should hear less of the inability of electric starters to turn over a large engine if a much higher gear ratio between starter pinion and flywheel were employed.
That the French makers are being encouraged to consider the application of electric starters by the French War Office stipulation that they must be fitted on all vehicles entered for thA trials.
That the Macintosh viorks at Manchester is one of the few in Lancashire on full time—and that the demand for tyres for commercial vehicles is responsible. Of ,London as a " city Of din."' That the tramcar has been chiefly responsible for the use of this appellation.
Of barbers on main-road traffic routes who have to stop their shaving operations when heavy vehicles pass!
That at the Salon the lorry builder complains of being left out in the cold, and the light car and motorcycle exhibitor of b?Ing overshadowed by the heavy lorries.
Of an 18-seater pneumatic-tyred Guy motor coach which is alleged by the police to have been driven so fast that a police officer on a speedy car could not overtakeit.