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Of deep feeling concerning basic super-resiliency. * That Mr. John Yarwood soon found his feet again.
" Always—Alldays—Always I will love you "—as on page 150.
That some driver football-enthusiasts object tr drive on the off side.
That when October is out business usually becomes much brighter than the weather.
0112-34 h.p. and 20-30 cwt. loads, hut of nothing as to what such descriptions mean.
That 'Waring's bonus scheme for motorvan drivers is deserving of imitation by other large furnishing el ores.
That many owner-drivers of taxicabs quietly move on. as soon as they are asked to pay their garage charges.
That Chelsea Borough Council would do well to repair its section of the Thames Embankment with more alacrity.
That a collier's wife entered a single-decker with five children and was unkind to the conductor when he asked her to pay for two.
That Macintosh and Co., Ltd., has scoured an order for the Coleman patent Triple-tire non-skid from the London Fire Brigade.
That Southend, near Catrord, once one of the prettiest of villages, has had its beauties destroyed by a totally unnecessary L.C.C. tramway extension.
That on certain Welsh Saturday-night bus services, the conductors lift their best-known passengers out of the gutters into the buses and call for their fares on Monday.
That if it were not for the greater mileage obtained, benzole would offer but little attraction to owners of commercial vehicles, by reason of the fact that there is—in, the absence of a tax—no rebate of qd. per gallon.
That " taxidermist " is not a fare description.
That some descriptive matter requires more than
first aid. *
From everybody concerned, if any little slip occurs in the " C.M."
Of a passenger service where fares occasionally ride on the mudguards.
That the Rubber Association thinks it may have a shot at resilient lifeguards.
That France is really only following Italy in the use of motor wagons to haul its heavy guns.
That the New York police find the use of motor patrol wagons amazingly economical and effective.
That more curves inwards will soon be characteristic of lifeguards between the axles of London motorbuses.
That it takes two of Ransomes motor mowers to keep the extensive lawns and sports fields at Birmingham University in good order.
That "bands and unused rubber to be returned" is becoming an increasingly-general condition of the contract in these days of cut prices for solid tires.
That the R.I.A. is interesting itself in the development of the coast road from Wallasey to H.oylake and West Kirby via Moreton, with an extension to Park
gate via Caldy. * That Mr. G. A. Green, who was one of the comparatively unknown and unseen foundations upon which the L.G.0.0. success was built, will sail from New York per the 1.. MS. "Mauretania," on the 22nd inst., on a short visit to London, Paris and Berlin.
From "The Rosendale Free Press":— "The specification of the new motor ambulance is as follows : Twenty horse-power Austin chassis ; four cylinder tension square tube ; honeycomb cylinder 'with fan ; high tension magneto and coil accumulator ; four forward speeds and reverse ; Austin elliptic rear Wheels and semi-elliptic front springs, the suspension of the car being all that can be desired; change speed control ; wheel base dimensions 10 feet ; width over all 13 feet 3.'