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20th February 1913
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

FROM MANCHESTER: That the census was a keen one.

That Sir Kenneth Crossley spoke kindly.

That everybody's round the 13-type chassis like bees.

That motorbuses will " howst " and hoist tramcars.

That nothing so much becomes some speakers as sitting down.

That Lawton's fine exhibit would have looked as well in a stable.

That the "Daily Mail" Daimler was the only loaded lorry on the list.

That there's many a worse place for a rest than the Austin ambulance.

That the rubber-tire people don't know what to think of the Renard.

That only a certain amount of crushing is really • good at a motor show.

That last week's fog in and around Cottonopolis was the worst within living memory.

That Fade') Davies is not necessarily a quidnunc, but that he knows how to spell it.

That the Daimler Co. will get those two models mixed if they aren't very careful.

That Manchester, so far from the sea, is so far the fourth port of the United Kingdom.

That the idea of popping Polack's name in white on exhibited tires is quite a brainy one.

That Mr. Frank Sborland had not coached the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot completely.

That the toast-master rapped the table for order much too often on Thursday night last.

That Clayton of Huddersfield and Searle of Coventry don't go to quite the same lengths.

That Mr. Herbert Austin will build a separate commercial-vehicle factory at Northfield.

That Mr. John Newton holds "the plate" as a tangible souvenir of things done together.

That a man who was asked why he preferred a pipe to cigarettes, replied " I don't smoke stationery.'

That one speaker, knowing his own shortcomings, sat down to prevent other people's finding them out.

That during the past ten days nearly everybody has been claiming some connection as a Manchester man.

That l lb. or t lb. per cub. in. of mass is vexing th^ mind of tire people who want to standardize loading. That more people care about commercial motors now.

That the Lord Mayor of Manchester's high praise of motor wagons was the feature of his speech.

That Mr. J. A. Wilding was educated at Peter Street School and Manchester Grammar School.

That Barnsley's char-asbancs proprietors have holiday crowds of miners for customers every week-day.

That Mr. 3. D. Siddeley did not forget to mention the City Hall and commercial motors when be was on his feet.

That the absence of Mr. Henry Spurrier, Jun., from the dinner left a big space which he might so well have filled.

That there will be Laere and other motorvans at the Laundry Show, at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, next month.

That the banqueting room at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, is on the site of the Lower Mosley Street Sunday School.

That the Lord Mayor pulled faces when the downfall of Manchester's electric trams was prophesied by Mr. Woodhead.

Inquiries for home copies of the 1913 Overseas Annual, and regrets from would-be readers that there is no such unposted surplus.

That Mr. R. D. F. Paul's well-chosen humour, not to say his digs at debating societies, were happily uttered and cheerily received.

That Messrs. S. F. Edge and Paris E. Singen were down to receive cash penalties—if any—under the No. 1 bond of the S.M.M.T., in 1902.

Expressions of perplexity as to the suitability of the St. Helen's perambulating advertisement, but none of doubt as to her attractiveness.

That they talk about the shores of the Ship Canal in Manchester, but that the sand takes a lot of finding, no matter how silver the lining may be.

That Mr. John Wilson informed his after-dinner hearers that Mr. J. Graham Reece was away "because he is indisposed through indisposition.'

That Mr. Blaekie, when the fog was thickest, thought an emergency show might be held at Leicester, as so many exhibits were hung up there.

FROM ELSEWHERE: That highways were not made for dogs to fight their battles on them.

That the rumours as to the FIallford subsidy subsided subsequently.

That to obtain sandwiches after midnight at some hotels calls for Napoleonic qualities. That the taxi-whistle is like the-poor.

That it does not pay to try to do without THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR.

That a strike does not end in a hurry when workers subsidize non-workers.

That you should not tell your drivers.if you're making structufal alterations.

That the company taximan invariably favours his owner-driver colleague on the ranks.

That the Chelmsford barbers are charging extra to shave men from the Hoffman grinding shops.

That the Lancashire County Council has in its possession very complete censuses of the traffic on the principal roads in the county. That fibre wa.shers are useful for thrust purposes on taxicab axles.

That a motorist who is a believer in alcohol does not necessarily drink it.

That the fact that horses are out of place on many of our streets is often felt most of all by the animals themselves.

That Mr. " Continental" Kahler has quite recovered from his recent accident, as has Mr. Herbert Frood from his.

That the L.B.S.C.R. is now advertising " Live on the Brighton Railway," and that that's about what it amounts to already with some of us these foggy days.

That the Continental tire, according to that maker's pocket book, "stands tropical climatest best," and that this company also offers "greatest fa.stilities for quick renewals."


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