One Hears— That the Speyerder has not yet finished the eating.
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That the new single-deckers in Paris have a downat-heel appearance.
That Frank Searle, from New York, is grass-hopping via Winnipeg to Japan.
That it's a silly game to play, to ask for tenders when one make only is admitted.
That the L.G.O.C. has its eye on the manufacture of London taxicabs at its Walthamstow factory.
That the wording of the song "To be a farmer's boy" will be revised to include agrimotor allusions.
Thai Hove people are glad to have a 74-minute service of motorbuses in place of the old 10-minute one.
That the average Paris gendarme is afraid of !stopping the traffic by holding his hand out, "for fear ze 'orse bite it."
Of a three-ton lorry taking 1000 dozen bottles of mineral waters to the Crystal Palace for the Gas Light and Coke Co.'s festival.
That too much imagination is a disadvantage in business, but that some truck salesmen have to resort to it when they are discussing deliveries.
That the feeling about petrol is really so strong that several millions of new capital would be imme• diately forthcoming if the proper scheme were.
That the L.C.C. • tramcar people are very sick about the effective performance of motorbuses in passengers conveyed, and that they are wondering how to reconstruct the two-to-one theory.
Of a special char-h,-bancs party of astronomers, who hired a vehicle to take them to the top of a hill in order that they should have a good view of a, recent comet, arid that the machine carried a giant telescope.
That Mr. joynson-Hicks never does suffer from a dearth of ideas, but that the conception that a " horsedrawn cab passed him like a flash" is somewhere near the limit of incredulity in relation to a man who is always getting along.
That., if the proceeds of the petrol tax from the L.C.C. area were handed over to that body for street improvement purposes, they would very quickly top the total which the L.C.C. has itself thought fit to charge against the tramcars in that
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No expressions of depression.
Inquiries for the best place to buy piston-rings.
Of further great industrial-vehicle activity in Manchester.
That the L.G.O. is completing capacious new offices in Grosvenor Road.
That while Barfords are making so many rollers they are not worrying much about sweepers.
That a petrol-electric motorbus caught fire and was completely burnt last week near Lewisham.
That the General Motor Cab Co. is considering the possibility of taking control of the F.I.A.T. Motor Cab Co.
That some Harriers and Thornys are confusingly alike in outline, and that we erred thereanent on page 396.
That the Harrier horse-van and the Lacre houndvan attracted so much attention at Doncaster that, by no means the last has been heard of either.
That there is a number of chassis at Tilbury Docks which cannot be removed owing to the strike, and that some of them have been there for over five weeks.
That the lamp posts in Rosebery Avenue have been lengthened so that motorbuses can no longer " biff " the glass shades, as has sometimes been their wont in days gone by That the case for London's new western highway may be greatly strengthened by that for the proposed new main road between Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
That Paris is becoming so English, and that one sign near a well-known motor showrooms reads "Five o'clock tea at any hour," and that another sign a little way off reads " Bifzteek Anglais."
That the 'United Kingdom's supply of motor spirit may vanish to other consuming countries, unless home consumers go on paying the price, or an alternative fuel come into widespread use throughout the world.
That people who write about the heroic profits of the Samuel group too often ignore the heroic efforts of the same parties in the days when they had to establish themselves and to withstand the efforts of the Standard-Oil crowd to crush them.