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That the London police have not yet begun to issue mealpermits on London cab-ranks.
That the people who got the Natal orders for tractors don't intend to hide these lights under a bushel at Liverpool next week.
That the Hon. W. A. Deane is due back in London from Buda Pesth shortly, and that he will pay a visit to the Royal Show.
That motor-spirit depots in Italy have to be some eight kilometres away from any town, and that the bulk transport of this fuel will soon be carried on by commercial motors.
That next week's Royal Show Issue of this journal is being widely supported on the business side, and that there is not much room left for special announcements in special positions. Y erbum, sat sa pima.
That the new 10-cwt. Laere van is a revelation of efficiency, and that it will hasten the departure of one-horse vans quite as surely as the earlier one-ton Lacre gave quittance orders to the pair-horse van.
That the patentees of the chain-drive gearbox of the L.G.O.C. will chiefly rely upon the claim for novelty in the combination of chains in the one box with a " through drive" independently of the chains.
That the Daimler Co. was perturbed by a paragraph on this page two weeks ago, that it thinks jolly little of any petrolelectric system other than the " K.P:L.," and that there may now be a race for honours between Coventry and Leyland.
That any motorbus or motnrcab companies whose vehicles have large-diameter wheels will in future have " the pull over those which seek public favour by models with smalldiameter wheels, and that the lesson presented by Cann's motor-coaches at Folkestone should not have been ignored for so long.
That the Hon. C. S. Rolls has completed the light-car section of the motor article for the tenth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, that Mr. E. Shrapnell Smith—by arrangement with Dr. Hele-Shaw, F.R.S.—has done likewise in respect of commercial motors, and that the sales of this edition in the U.S.A. alone will exceed 800,000 copies.
That somebody has been circulating unwise remarks about the L.G.O.C., in the shape of a cutting from a certain monthly supplement, and that inquiries have been put on foot to ascertain the motive of the writer in thus seeking to force additional publicity for his peculiar views on a particularlydelicate matter of good taste in relation to authority.
That Polack tires have been specified for Lever's new motor v ans.
That the Halley-Thomas groups are engaged upon a business flirtation, and that negotiations were opened with a resounding bang.
That Fodens think a lot of THE Comxtr.actar, MOTOR Cup, but that they are quite aware that it was really won by the Eastern Motor Wagon Co., Ltd.
That Gussage of Widnes, Watson of Leeds and Crosfield of Warrington are " much interested " in the Lever move, and that certain roads may be known as the soapy way.
That Col. Crompton has been appointed technical adviser to the Road Board, much to the disgust of a. few county engineers who either misunderstand or are stupidly afraid of him.
That the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., has undergone a wonderful metamorphosis during the past 18 months, and that its turnover on the commercial-vehicle side is to be tackled next.
That the commercial-vehicle show at Olympia, in January next, will be attended by buyers from all parts of the world, and that a fair " gate " is assured from the ranks of various existing owners and their employees in the United Kingdom.
That M. Fournier, the inventor of the " saturated-vapour " thermometric device which bears his name, considers that the article which was published in our issue of the 30th of December last gave the most-lucid description of any of the many which dealt with it.
That several other writers who essayed the task utterly failed to grasp the principle on which the Fournier instrument is based, and that one man, who is more-or-lees known amongst steam-car owners, made the mistake of thinking it is a pneumatic thermometer.
That the old, old story of a great national motor haulage scheme reminds one of the yarn of the sea serpent, which latter usually had its origin in the sighting during a calm of a floating mast with a yard flapping, whereas the former canard has not yet got as far even as the floating stage.
That there is no good reason, however, Why a big motortransport concern should not gradually be worked up, in preference to the course of the much-trumpeted establishment of such an undertaking upon a huge scale at one fell swoop, and that the real prospects of finance for the safer plan of campaign come from Sheffield, to which city we may yet have to award the palm for judicious procedure in this matter.