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Of a new Auto Horse.
Of the first dust of the season.
That it had the same old elusive taste..
Of a great demand for new slogans.
Of Blatehford's conversion by Ford.
That the Ford knows little of conversion.
That the Ford is a communistic bus—common property. 0 Of the application of pneumatic braking to motorbuses in America.
Of suggestions for overhead roads to solve London's traffic problems.
That a far-seeing people would have provided for underground ways for goods traffic.
That the Departmental Committee on Motor Taxation had another quiet week last week.
Of a new range of commercial vehicles by one of the most famous motor-vehicle manufacturers.
That the brewer's motor lorry has vastly improved the status and conditions of the brewer's dray-man.
That the electric lighting set supplied with most American, and some British, lorries is a good selling point.
That an extra mile to the gallon of fuel 'would be a great step towards meeting the reduction in railway rates.
That manufacturers of vehicles should aim to give that extra mile.
That suppliers of motor spirit should do their part to the same end.
That users should tune their engines and cut down transmission losses to gain the extra distance on every gallon of fuel.
That all new deliveries of a famous vehicle will shortly be delivered with appropriate heraldic em blazonments. 0 That the representative of a large transport organization states that price has nothing to do with the quality of gearbox oil.
And that, if the oil level in the gearbox is maintained by periodic additions, the oil need only be drained and replaced after six months of hard running.
That an examination of a few pitted shafts would, however, convince the ordinary user that the better the oil the cheaper the cost of maintenance.
" Cha.mpion! Last Saturday we carried over 100 en her every trip ! "—from a proud provincial enthusiast owning a new 40-seated single-decker.
From Col. F. S. Stevens (Thos. Wethered and Sons, Ltd.), that the keenness and enthusiasm of the parade prize-winning teams was something that could not be bought, but had come naturally.
Also, that Gunner Lennard, Wethered's head driver, has been the champion boxer of Portsmouth. That India is waking up considerably. Of ambitious one-ton production plans.
Of the designing people who play for safety.
That the life of a tyre may be a short story.
Of a remarkable new body-building material.
Of overloading as an evil of which good may come.
That axle weights have gone West in the Free State.
Of a queer variation in Ford density in various areas.
Cyclists groaning because the tar fiend is loose again.
Of sharply-contrasted cpinions on the future of the steam wagon.
Of a new carburetter with an additional carburetting feature.
That there is enough wireless talk to fuse every aerial that was ever erected.
Of very definite pries-maintenance activities—and not before it was time, either !
That the Lambeth man who bit a tram conductor is now doing his bit—two months' hard.
That, if he'd bitten a policeman, he'd have got off with six weeks.
That the Government's fire-brigade centralization intentions are not likely to mature yet awhile.
Of railway-cum-omnibus season tickets as the latest move to check the competitive bus owner in London.
That the Chiswick :Overhaul Factory is working so smoothly that Mr. Shave regards it as the least of his worries.
With surprise, that no one has invented a cuckoo motor horn to give a seasonable touch to spring-tide coaching trips.
That there's going to be a lot of hard talking over the Road Section of the Olympia programme--especially about dates.
—0 From some that the day of Parades is over, and from others that they serve a very useful purpose and should not be dropped.
That the average Ford driver will frankly say " know all about the mechanism, but this electrical system on the van floors me!"