One Hears— Of London mud and Paris muddle.
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Of many advertisements too -black with blocks. That most big owners carry six days supply of spirit.
That the Solex radiator is to be used on certain London buses.
That Adelaide leads in Australasian commercialvehicle development.
That the idea of a reversible motorbus is still being pushed, and that it wants.it.
That the industrial vehicles created comparatively little interest at the Paris Show.
That the Russian War Office has placed a large order for Milnes-Daimler-Mer&des lorries.
That it's as well to make sure of something to hitch them to before deciding to use blocks and falls.
That the preference for petrol is extraordinary, so long as any is to be had, no matter at what price.
That the Lancashire arm means to push the commercial vehicle into the next North of England Show.
That carriers who introduce customers do not always get the commissions which are rightly due to them.
That a well-known engineer, who is also a patent agent, thinks one success in thirty patents is a satisfactory average.
That the chief use of a patent is as a "keep off the grass" notice, but as a commercial proposition it seldom is of value.
That there are two steam representatives against 16 petrol men on the commercial-vehicle committee of the S.M.M.T.
That a well-known motor-wagon engineer each frosty winter buys two or three pairs of new skates to ensure an early thaw.
That the Daimler Co. is to give up its subsidiary shock-absorber springs, and that other designers have little faith in auxiliary springing.
That a recent puzzle order in the Dennis replacement department read " One fan complete with cups, balls and spindles, less fan blades and centre, but with pulley and bracket." • From many kind friends, who noted last week's slip, that they would be glad to have factories built at 3d. per square foot, but that no architect thought it worth while to ask for a correction.
That London's great western highway to by-pass Brentford will prove to cost only S.:275,000, and that it will be nearly as good as the one that was put forward in the first instance to cost 21,750,000.
That, the right to tow four barges of petrol at a time up the Thames notwithstanding, the importing companies usually send only two at a time, and those very often of not more than 100 tons capacity each. Of fine new cast-steel road wheels.
That damper gear is frequently ill-designed and unworkable.
Of the reason why Maudslays quietly dropped their chain-drive gearbox.
That Major Urquhart, late of the B.M.C. Co., is now on Harrod's staff.
That at least one 32 h.p. Albion has now invaded the Dundee transport world.
That rubber packing strips are useless unless they have the bulk and the room to deform.
Of a new and interesting vibrometer which Mr. P. Frost-Smith discovered in Paris last week.
That more marvellous than gyroscopic control are the automatic stabilisers in the human head.
That it's the long catenary of the Foden final chain drive which gives it a three-years life.
Of satisfactory demonstration of the Sentinel steamwagon engine brake, by one-finger operation.
That a starving town in Lancashire was revictualled by a small Darracq full of consumable stores.
That the London Motorcab Owner-Drivers' Association is getting itself disliked in several quarters.
That Mr. R. W. Coan will go in for a parcelcar or two to effect deliveries, and cease using an auxiliary youth to help turn the wheels.
That. direct conveyance of goods and stores by motorvan gets over the difficulty of depredations by rats in the railway goods sheds.
Of a steam-wagon driver, who, refused water from a trough for which he had a permit, picked up the publican-owner and put him into it.
That. just after a user in Wolverhampton had placed an order for a new vehicle, 11 demonstration vehicles from other makers arrived on the scene.
Of the return from Paris to America, after a few weeks, and before the Show started, of a well-known Yankee works manager, because he was home sick.
That the Port of London Authority has been disappointed by the non-receipt of congratulatory messages upon its recent petrol-movement concessions.
That Mr. Dan Simpson, of Manchester. was busy, some years ago, with something on the lines of the Wyles plough for goods porterage on African tracks.
That, owing to the careful preservation of Richmond Bridge in its present state by the Society of Ancient Monument Lovers, a motorbus ride over the same is known as a " penny thrill."
That. the builders of a new central cloth warehouse in Manchester, which building is now under construction, are actually putting in two loading stages less than the number that were in the old building, and this with a view to overcoming congestion.