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That there was paraffin in that petrol can.
That the next Subsidy Trials will not include parcelcars.
That Carlsbad's latest cure for traffic ills is likely to be motorbuses.
fhat sad harm has been done to Overseas sales of 131itish fire-engines.
That Barnstaple R.D.C. objects to the size of some motor chars-a-bancs.
. That trolleybuses on the solenoid system should be more railless than ever, That Dr. Ormandy, the chemist. soapboiler, continues an ardent alcohol toiler.
That the L.G.O.C. new bus posters make an excellent frieze for a child's nursery.
That Bristol's new jam factory at Brisling-ton will hae-e a fine house for its motorvans.
That the King's motor-baggage van will be sent to the C.M.U.A. Parade again this year.
That "No. City of London " steamer holds the record for slackness in steering connections.
That prize notice is to be taken of the v au at the Parade which proves to be the most eye-catching.
That if Paris muddle be a desirable example, then M. Manage will well earn his D250 from the L.C.C.
That the driver of a motor hearse was fined for doing 30 miles an hour last week with a corpse in the vehicle,
That H.M. the King watched a party under Major Wilder casting a bed-plate in the M.T. Workshops at Aldershot.
That Chorley the War Office shouldn't have had to eei so far as Lancashire to find an owner of a subsidized char-a-bancs2 That a CM." representative was suspected to be a Government Inspector by several gun-running v an owners in Belfast last week.
That even the Riches of Store Street do not at the moment support all the necessary C.A.V. enamelled letters, and that it looks jolly bad. What one's tolled.
That the, Alcohol Lunch was much too sober.
Tliat Preston councillors liked the Leyland showing,
That motorbuses have become masters of the road, That Swiss factories keep pressing on German ones, That Curzonski, Ltd., is now an accomplished fact.
That the Irish jaunting ear is becoming still more of a side line.
That the public appreciates speed, and insists upon its maintenance.
That it's as well to walk quickly on tarred roads in the hot weather, lest one sticks.
Of a. gigantic self-propelling petrol tin perambulating London as an advertisement.
That the root of the problem for the branch business is to acquire a Forest light van.
That the automatic inlet-valve engine still induces respect as a veteran device, if for no other reason.
That it will not be easy to persuade Tramway Committees to order battery vehicles for extensions over macadam roads.
That R.I.C., Belfast., does not mean Roads Int provement Committee, but that it ought to, as there is plenty of room. for one.
That one of the many emergency sub-eomntittees on the Parade was held last week in the box office of the Victoria Palace Music Hall.
That 650 motor vehicles were mustered for the recent Ulster gun-running exploit, and that for the night's run the efficiency was 98 per cent, That " The Evening News " has at last discovered that there is a traffic problem in London, and, morever, tha,L it makes several suggestions—very ancient ones, but gill suggestions.
That evidences of the King of Denmark's joy-drive through the City were promptly collected on motor wagons, and that even the sand was taken up within an hour by Laffly sweepers. Too little about how some roads are made had.
That Lancashire char--banes owners are learning that uniformity of prices is strength.
That London uses more coal in its gas works in one day than Switzerland does in one year.
Of a McCurd demonstration char-h-banes with yellow and black finish not unlike the " C.M." front cover.
That one of the long-distance motorbus routes in London is that from the North Pole to the World's End.
That quite a number of foreign and colonial trade journals are now devoting space to the subject of commercial vehicks.
That petrol-driven rollers often work under the protection of boards bearing the time-honoured legend " Beware of the steam roller."
That an effort will be made to find corners for commercial motors at Waverley Market, Edinburgh, from the 20th to 28th November next.
Complaints from users that motor manufacturers do not attend to their repair departments as carefully as to their production departments. That a fat spark can take a big jump.
That many a motorvan is a fine blot of colour.
That the L.C.C. tramways have many wheels of woe That a good driver is often a smart hand at conversions.
That live agents are helping the C.M.U.A. to get lecal members.
That there's more scope for hire-purchase facilities, and L5 per cent. to be made.
That one way for a shopkeeper to put up the shutters is to refuse to use a pal celear or light van.
That had the foreman moulder had a look in at sonic designs the castings would have had a longer life.
That if the L.G.O.C. were able to get away from its 100 nuu, standard for the back wheels of its motorbuses, and to adopt 140 MM., the tire life would be doubled.
That amongst the last London horsed buses to disappear even from irregular services were those known as the " Royal Blues," and that they were amongst the first to take up regular running.