One Hears—
Page 3
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
That Belsize shares are going up.
That it is " Jarratt " Liversidge– not "James H."
Of the likely disappearance of the projecting hub cap.
That the cotton settlement may only be a truce for 12 months.
That. exhibitors did well at Glasgow, but that they will do better at Manchester.
That each of two industrial-vehicle makers claims originality for similar types of winding gear.
That de Dion mail vans in Paris are doing well On Continental diagonally-grooved solid tires.
That the new uniform of the L.G.O.C. traffic guides is suggestive of the threatened German invasion.
That some Pressmen do not know the difference between the Road Board and the Development Commissioners.
That Mr. W. Oscar Pritchard continues to do well with his Leyland fleet of single-deck omnibuses at nl»idge Wells.
That the North British people think our design for Underground buses is an infringement of the tireshape design of their own motorvan.
That a Trevithiek railway engine named the Cornwall ran 928,838 miles between 1849 and 1905, and that after an overhaul it. is now in service again.
That the Eastern Motor Wagon Co.'s whole fleet carries nothing but beer—bar coal and water, and that its staff has a preference for Whitbread's.
That some Lancashire owners of motor vehicles, who practically use their machines only on town hauls, are saving 50 per cent, compared with horse costs.
That. no single person fails to credit Mr. J. Howard Moore with sincerity of purpose, but that many who cheered him on Friday last perceived that he was heating a. dead horse.
That one chief engineer, now well-known in England, during the Boer War broke into a Dutch mill and ran away with a tractor and three wagons which were subsequently used by our forces.
That since the article entitled " Faking a Taximeter " appeared in this journal last week, several cab companies have been pestered by the Press with requests for interviews with the writer of the article.
That Mr. T. Salkield, the city engineer of Delhi, is likely to have to postpone his contemplated visit to England ()wing to the elevation of that city to the position of the Imperial capital of the Indian Empire.
That a reader of the " C.M.," after inspecting the illustration of the rear view of the Daimler tractor in the last issue, expressed surprise that the small engine there shown was large enough for the job, and that be did not realize this was the 3 h.p. aircooled starting engine only.
That the guards of some motor-mail vans have been earning as much as lls, a week, but that it was too good to last.
That Sir Edgar Speyer can split his purchases into 240 lots for voting purposes it he cares to take that simple course.
That parts of the Bee are still considering the Spider's invitation, but that sufficient notice has been taken of the R.S.V.P.
That. Cadbury's of Birmingham have ordered two more Thornyeroft vans, and that their fleet of that make and type will then be six.
That one of the best ways for drivers to keep their feet warm during cold weather is to secure a plentiful supply of hay or straw with which to cover them.
That traders who use gaudy envelopes with stripes on them should remember that too much outside splashing may detract. attention from modest-looking contents.
That the Thomas electro-mechanical transmission has been awarded the Dewar trophy by the R.A.C. for the most-remarkable performance in the motor world during 1911.
That a set of Paraband solid-rubber tires which is fitted to a five-ton Foden steamer which does 75 miles a day has already given over 20,000 miles of service, and that the tires are " still running."
That a large party, returning from a dance in London, lost the last train at Charing Cross, and, in default of other conveyance, arrived home in Kent by motor-wagon at 4.30 a.m. on a Sunday morning.
Of an Australian taximeter which settles part of the " extras " question by the meter's registering the number of passengers actually carried, and that it may be in use on the London streets in the notdistant future.
That Nigel Crompton, the youngest son of Colonel R. E. Crompton, C.B., is well on his way to New Zealand, in order to take charge of some very considerable new schemes of road construction on behalf of the New Zealand Government.
Of a worm-driven live back axle on an Argyll 25-cwt. van which was delivered in September, 1907, that has not yet been opened out for any purpose whatever, and that the mileage recorded for the van during that time is above (17,000 miles.
That the operation of tramway points from a position on the kerb is a most-dangerous practice, as often the pointsman cannot see the oncoming trams, on account of the intervening near-side traffic, and that their operation from the carriage-way adds to obstruction.
That applicants for a job in the tire business were asked by a certain firm to state their personal qualifications in respect of business knowledge, technical knowledge, reliability, tact, perceptiveness, resource, foresight., manner, energy, memory. pertinacity, accuracy, method, self-reliance, initiative, self-assertion, discipline, persuasiveness, education, temperateness, punctuality and morality, with the result that nobody got the berth.