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For what the Editor judges to be the best published " One hears," if it happen to be contributed, half-a-crown will be awarded weekly.
That facts talk.
Much fiction concerning facts.
That swimming baths are popular again.
That it cooler at Belle Isle Park, Detroit.
Of a driver's death for want of a weather-screen. Of more and more use of the small classified "ads."
That a motor pantechnicon makes a good travelling show-room.
That the Board of Trade is against double-deck trolley-buses.
That Sutton's have two Albions (not one) running at Manchester, That one at least of the Colonies is not paying its way or its debts.
From a van driver who knows three reputed sources of Father Thames.
That overhead traversers and motor lorries will help to speed things at Calcutta.
That it's better to fill up ruts in a bad road than to have one's motorbuses broken .up.
That. tire companies are vying with each other in their philanthropic business methods.
Of • such secrecy re German W.O. Subsidy vehicles as to lead one to think martial law existed.
That the Press visitors had a warm reception in more senses than one at. Bristol last Monday.
That the palni trees in the Cornish Riviera resemble scaffold poles topped by branches of aspidistra leaves.
That Tilling's latest Croydon-Sherealiteh service is claimed to be the longest motorbus route in London.
That there would be fewer traffic accidents on the carriageway if there were fewer perambulators on the pavements.
That the annual bowling match, Macintosh v. Shrewsbury-Challiner, took place on the lath inst., with teams of 20 a side, and that Macintosh won.
That a gipsy, riding an antiquated bicycle with a eh eumatic chain, gave a. wagon driver some mysterious but wonderfully-effective black chain grease which he produced from his pocket.
That to-morrow's meeting at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, with a view to the formation of a branch C.M.1[T.A., should have far-reaching results in the important area with which it will be identified. That there were a lot of good tips in our last issue That it was " One day's hot work" on a meat. wagon.
That Devonshire cream has an evil effect On the speed limit.
From a Manchester contributor whose initials arc• That those W.O. specifications hardly seem to have been worth while.
That the S.M.M.T. will make about £6,000 out of next month's show.
That the G.W.R. should rightly get much kudos from. " Royal " publicity.
That within a two hours' railway journey of Bristol there are 17,000,000 inhabitants.
That on many West Country roads the tirean ileage. guarantee is all in favour of the user.
That the Select Committee on Accidents has. degenerated into a row about rating.
That there is great danger to top-deck bus passengers from tramway-trolley wires under bridges. • That 500.000,000 passengers seems rather a lot for the L.C.C. trams to carry in order to earn £497.
That " fine words butter no parsnips," according. to Sir John Benn, but that he keeps his for the L.C.C. trams.
That Mr. Charles Challenger, of the Bristol T. and C. Co.' Ltd., is quite aptly named, and that his son, is an airman.
That the guests at the Royal Show Press visit were glad that. not every city on the mute from London. gave them literature.
That the latest decision of the War Office, to admit the Dennis worm drive as part of its 1912 subsidy scheme, should make other worms turn—somersaults.
That the Deputy-Master of the Mint is prepared to relieve motorbus and other companies of excess bronze coin, and to assist in restoring such coin to circulation.
That electric traction in London has come to apretty bad pass, when it is only possible to set aside £497 for renewals, asthe result of a year's working, and impossible to put anything at all to reserve, which facts arise from the L.C.C. position.
That for the London area, the electorate goes to thepolls to the extent of 47 per cent. for the borough council elections, a 52.2 per cent, for the L.C.C. elections, of 74.6 per cent, for the Parliamentary elections, but of only 21.3 per cent. for the election of Guardians.