One Hears— That the Union wishes it hadn't.
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That we were not far wrong about that strike after all.
That Mr. T. E. Harrison has now received a Coronation medal.
That a Durbar Ball will be held at the R.A.C. on he 12th prox.
That the escalator is a very good attempt, but that it is a slow one.
That the hooks on the subsidized vehicles have already caught on.
That " where there's a wheel very true of our last issue. there's a way " was That the London cabmen's strike pay worked out at from 6d. to 714. per day.
That we really ought not to have published that letter to the drivers from the Sharp Cab Co.
That altruism has long ago yielded place to the dividend vogue in matters commercial motorial.
That the heavy-motor alternative is being held over the heads of railwaymen by their own advisers.
That one of the largest manufacturers of British pleasure cars is once again casting a glad eye at the heavy side of the industry.
That the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd., of Manchester, has again donated 250 to the funds of the Royal Agricultural Society.
That one maker of Yankee ca-vs has given an order for 3,000 sets of mudguards, to be delivered at the rate of 80 a week, for fitting to cars for sale on the English market.
That very many component and speciality merchants at Olympia quoted as a guarantee of good faith the alleged appreciation of either the L.G.O.C. or Scotland Yard.
That. on Monday last the visiting American automobile engineers were to be taken to the Coventry opera house, where they were asked to enjoy a " real old-fashioned melodrama such as is still very popular in English manufacturing towns," and that the had carefully selected it.
That the latest diminutive is " Vanette." That few did hear at the Inst. A.E. dinner.
That an off-side lamp at its new position in line with the extreme point of the body-work should be called the elbow light.
That the American engineers when coming across aboard the " Mauretania " bossed the saloon and thought they bossed the ship.
From one London cabdriver that, since the strike, during a long busy day's work, he has received the exact legal fare in every instance.
That an Oldham publican has found the cost of broken glasses to be £15 a year more since heavy motors favoured his street with their presence.
That Mr. Krailzheimer, with his Solex carburetter and other specialities, was very comfortably installed in private premises outside Olympia during the Show.
That a projected motorbus trip to Hindhead for " heavy" people on the Sunday after Show week waS perforce abandoned, as no one turned up to the appointment.
That there is no immediate prospect of an increase in the London taxicab fares, that the whole question is having official consideration, and that the solution to the present unrest may prove to be other than an increase in the rate.
That the fourth annual " Show Saturday" dinner last Friday was the usual success, that special honours were done to Mr. A. Maynard Rowland to mark the occasion of his recent appointment, and that he bore them with his accustomed geniality.
That Mr. A. J. Balfour, on Tuesday of last week, spent half an hour at the. Coventry Chain Co.'s stand at Olympia talking to Mr. A. Maynard Rowland, that he resigned on the next day, and that this may have been due to the soporific effect of the silent chains.
That when (if) the L.G.O.C. and the tubes amalgamate, express motorbus services will be inaugurated along many of the long tunnels by means of which. at present, the would-be passenger walks from the alleged station to the platform, and that the first subterranean motu-bus. will run batween London Bridge tube station and London Bridge tube platform, which is quite a long run.