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Of a scarcity of motorbus drivers and a superfluity of conductors.
That to-n*ht's ball at the residence of Mr. Harvey du Cros will be " a grand affair."
That intending members of the C.M.U.A. can now join for the remainder of 1911 at a subscription, for the half-year, of 10s. 6d, That the L.G.O. Wahhamstow factory is turning out 20 B-type chassis regularly every week, and that this rate is to be maintained up to Christmas at least.
That Parsons Town Quay Garage, at Southampton, has been doing good business all this summer, that review day was the record, but that all demands were satisfactorily met.
That many of the big cab companies drivers will pay up to Is. 2d, per gallon, for petrol of a fancied superiority from outside dep4s, rather than use garage fuel at Bd. or 9d.
That a motor tricycle-carrier was recently seen, in the West End, with a passenger packed inside its closed box body, and that it is believed that he was alive when the journey began.
That, next to the passenger subways at the Elephant and Blackfriars, the coolest and most-isolated spots during last week's hot weather were the Underground Tramway Stations in Kingsway.
That the, reduction in the number of horses in the Metropolis has accounted for the virtual disappearance of the plague of flies which has been so great a nuisance during all previous hot summers.
That. the L.G.O. officials were highly amused at a recent characteristic Press reference to the B-type motorbuses with Silent-Knight, sleeve-valve engines, but that they are now hardened to this class of information.• That rat-catchers are now taking to motors, that one in South London, to advertise his "Champion Exterminator" adequately, drives round in a light four-wheeled van with both the live and the dead vermin on show, and that the Highways Protection League is expected to take some action in keeping with its general lack of a sense of proportion. Of 120-lb. skate and 60-lb. congers caught by Messrs. Searle and Brockbank.
That the proprietor of a certain motor paper often goes to business on horseback.
That the " islands," which were removed from thestreets during Coronation time, are being brought back to their sites in steam wagons—lamp-posts and That certain appointed agents "down under" are getting distinctly sick about failures of delivery, and that even their money waiting at London banks seems to be of no advantage to them.
That the carriers' combine will be forced through, that there will be a rate war if certain owners do. not come in, and that the backers of the scheme now have a Parisian multi-millionaire behind them.
That Julian Halford is about to pay a short visit to the Old Country, and that he will reach London on Tuesday next--via Fisliguard, and after crossing' the Atlantic in the Cunard R.M.S. "Lu.sitania."
That it may not be very many weeks before the C.M.U.A. plates "Drive near left kerb." are—with police and borough-council sanction—put up in Piceadilly, Shaftesbury Avenue, Lower Regent Street, Regent Street, St. James's Street and Pall Mall.
That the scheme for next year's C.M.U.A. Parade will be in keeping with the expressed wishes of many owners, and will provide for technical inspections of and visits to the store-sheds by an engineer who has intimate knowledge of heavy-motor-traffic require ments.
That the percentage of old horses in many big stables is now so high, owing to the non-renewal of stock, that further big jumps in orders for self-propelled vans and lorries must soon come along, and that several harassed makers whose deliveries are behind time are offering mental prayers for just a little more life to the old crocks yet.
That Mr. IL Denton Hardwick is sticking to Kent motor transport, that the Berns. lorries which he is using are doing splendidly on their Polack tires, and that the way he has pulled the thing together with industrial support, after his being thoroughly let down by the farmers, is a real tribute to his organiz-ing and administrative qualities.