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That Canada will be the next centre of interest.
That the next complaint about London motorbuses will be on account of their alleged dangerous silence of running.
That more than one manufacturer Intends to reduce the numbers of models in future, and that several will build only two.
That the question of London's premier omnibus company is not yet settled after all, and that not a few people want to know why this is so.
That reports of the C.M.U.A. parade in June last are now coming home in Press cuttings from the far countries of the world, including Japan and Australia.
That ill-considered efforts are being made to help forward proposals for the resuscitation of a commercial-vehicle section at the Agricultural Hall in November next.
That the Calthrop-McEwau-Pratt rail ear is a combination which will " catch on " quickly, and that Indian conditions are not the only ones that can be satisfactorily met upon similar lines.
That there are several makers who have found nice little " corners " in commercial-motor business, and that they won't talk or write about them for public consumption. whilst others prefer a policy of wide publicity for their deals and sales.
That the managers of several of the larger tramway undertakings in this country complain that the regulation 16-inch seating accommodation in their vehicles is entirely inadequate for the large proportion of women passengers who now wear " 3-foot " hats, and that the receipts per mile at rush times are suffering accordingly. That in the face of a high tariff one Sheffield maker alone is sending over 100 tons of tool steel per week to the U.S.A.
That the first of the new Albion three-tonners is doing splendidly in the service of the United Co-operative Baking Society, Ltd., of Glasgow.
That the coal-gas system, which this journal was the first to illustrate and describe (issue of the 29th April, 1908), still remains the most-effective check upon petrol-price possibilities.
That many London taxi-drivers disown the men who assert that tips average only id. per "fare," and that all decent drivers admit that nine people out of ten pay them Is. for an 81. hiring.
That. the uses and value of commercial motors will be particularly conveyed to the managements of Plantation Rubber Companies in " The Dominion and Overseas Special " of December next.
That a Sheppee superheated-steam lorry has been doing some good demonstration work for a Yorkshire brewery company, and that the management is considering the purchase of one or more vehicles of that make.
That the Noise Committee's so-called bus tests, which take place twice a week at Hampstead Heath, are just as great a farce as ever they were, and that intelligent observers wonder why on earth the perpetration of this red-tape nonsense is allowed to continue, and to whose advantage it is?
That Mr. Guy Calthrop, who has resigned the general managership of the Caledonian Railway to aceept the corresponding post with the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway Co., will, as befits a brother of Mr. Everard R. Calthrop, give early consideration to purchases of commercial motors for auxiliary and town services on both the goods and passenger sides.