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" Buy badly, pay twice."
Of a Dennis depot for Liverpool.
Of many more van horses for sale.
Of limited lives for certain motorbus bodies.
That oil-tightness is the mother of cleanliness.
Of the undoubted success of motor-borne infantry.
Of hirers who take motorcabs to take the moonlight.
Of demands for free petrol baths by some repairfitters.
That yet another splashguard device has been found wanting.
Of good progress at new De Dion premises Hendon way.
That there is a shortage of machine-tool men in Glasgow.
That C.M.U.A. personal (owners or drivers) badges will be very popular.
The larger the char-à-bancs the more frequent the visits to the repair shop.
That the Bradford Corporation prefers single-deck to. double-deck trolleybuses.
That Col. Crompton will preside at 31r. Watson's first lecture, on the Sth prox.
That four Commercer chars-k-bancs are eatelting the eye and good trade of Toronto. a That " The Girl in the Taxi "is having a long run, but that she still has the same. fare to pay.
Of an American funeral furnisher and undertaker who will exclusively use motor vehicles in future.
That easy-payment sales of coats, gloves. and other motor clothing are common outside big garages on pay-day.
That L.C.C. antagonism to motorbus s is really an impotent, attempt to interfere with the normal Jaws of development.
That the fullest use of motor wagons for Army purposes is attained when they move troops after they Lave done with supply.
Of a conspicuous advertisement for elect rie lamps stating that " no lamps take less current," but that that only leaves us in the dark, That the Australian Comptroller-General of Customs is looking into the existing tariff on steam wagons, and the case against it.
That " if you live at. East Sheen, you can travel to and from London by bus service every five minutes," but that the life is not recommended. Raillery of the tramrail.
That it's a badge job about Tilling's.
From many drivers keen on benzole.
That not all that's bluff concerns the Navy.
01 creo otic consternation in the disinfectant world.
That cracked creosote may crack other fuel schemes.
Of a. smart Wolseley satisfying a large draper down south.
That it is the right thing to acknowledge extracts from this iournal.
That the Mechanical Transport Committee will not attend the Subsidy Trials in an armoured wagon.
That deformation and distortion in solid-rubber tires under load are often wrongly termed compression.
That it takes a bit of wangling to hold W.O. road trials with vehicles that are. not yet out of the shops.
That many a new £2 2s. will be paid to the on the 1st prox., in order to secure 15 months of benefit.
That the entrants for the current subsidy tests have dwindled like the six little burglars in one of Fred Karno's sketches.
That the India Rubber and G.P.T. Works, Ltd., of Silvertown, has constructed an electrically-propeiled truck for its own warehouses.
That a few coast roads in Scotland could do with the same protection against sand that is necessary on the Highland Railway against snow.
That there's money in plenty available for the improvement of rural transport to he had for the asking from the Development Commissioners.
That in public legislation the word " railway " dces not include " tramway " unless it be expressly made so to do by the terms of the Act.
That the Mackenzie Mann interests in Canada. have certain intentions with regard to any motorbus developments that may possibly hit any of their street railways.
That mare people might with advantage to themselves realize that the weather in the Highlands during September is usually much superior to that far ther south.
That the judicious expenditure of gal on the overhaul of any average second-hand bus or three-ton chassis renders it. a safe machine with which to test a country service.
That owners of all types of commercial motors who send their vehicles on long-distance trips may soon have oceasion to be very glad that the C.M.U.A. is in such close touch with the R.A.C. and the A.A.