One Hears— Of bad times coming for excess-weighters.
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Of important new Austrian-Daimler moves, That it's net a motor show at Olympia, Paris.
That repairs well done mean service well done.
Of extensive shale deposits in the Isle of Skye.
That discretion is the better part of motor driving.
That they like their HaIlford at Melbourne G.P.O.
From people oceasionadly who want one to poster poster to them.
That screenless commercial motors account for much pneumonia.
That they don't seem to bother about motorbus licences at Maidstone.
That Paris is several years behind London in respect of commercial motors.
That every square foot of space at the Manchester City Hall has been allotted.
That some level-crossing gates are persistently kept shut when they should be open.
That the life curve of bitumen under road wear is much better than that of pitch.
That it's high time a few horse committees added the word " motor " to their names.
That there is no excuse for tattered and torn tires, now that. rubber is so low in price.
That Mr. F. Searle is now in charge of touring-car and commercial-vehicle Daimler sales.
That high periodicity and amplitude are right for most services but wrong for the springs.
That Prowodnik solid tires are now sold for loads between 8 cwt. and 50 cwt. per single tire.
That the L.G.O.C. directors would do well to rent v.-aiting-room space at certain picking-up points.
That glue and water seldom agree, and that some three-ply panels provide examples when it rains.
That Plymouth Town Council may take action to check short measure of petrol in two-gallon tins.
That " Original Bernas " were not, so called merely because the man who sells them is noted for original ideas.
That few lifeguard inventors will allow themselves to be picked up backwards by their own devices.
Of serious damage to the transmission by police constables who have removed motorvans from the highway on occasion.
That the Wolseley people would not mind if other generous donors were to follow Harrogate's lead, and to present ambulances of their make to municipalities. That courtesy on the telephone brings orders. That the quiet engine gets past the policeman. That creosote agrees with the Southey producer. That H, Kerr-Thomas is due over from Buffalo. Good reports concerning the Nota,x carburetter.
That " meshing the gears " often implies messing them.
That Mr. S. A. Curzonski is back from the Crimea.— unhurt.
That the K.T. conferred on Prince Arthur was not the tire.
That the County Councils Association is after the Premier.
Of a possible commercial non-stop London-to-Edinburgh run.
That even cats and dogs are gradually acquiring "traffic sense."
That some anti-motor reports are curious, entertaining and pathetic.
That some company accounts do not go so far as to separate pens and ink.
That Britannia ruled the waves in the Channel quite reasonably last week.
That Berlin and other European capitals are copying the L.G.O.C. lifeguards.
That steel manufacturers regard commercial motors as a bright spot in their future.
That by the time all the new accessories are fitted a, bus chassis weighs all it should.
That horse drivers are finding it hard to get. places with owners of business vehicles.
That big lettering, and little of it, on the sides of motorvans, will yet become more popular still.
That Sir George Gibb's high opinion of Irish oratory is only equalled by his resistance of Irish blarney.
That Waring's fleet of Leylands goes once round the world every seven weeks—at. any rate so far as mileage is concerned.
That owners of taxicabs whose flap-seats are damaged by their being used as foot-rests would do well to fit heel-ledges on their under-sides.
That it was easy, six months after the author had to close, adversely to comment on statistics in a contributed paper for a congress, but scarcely fair.
That. Colonel Holden, FR. S., in conjunction with Drake and Gorham, Ltd., of 66, Victoria Street, Westminster, is responsible for an excellent, semi-automatic, petrol-engine-cum-dynamo-cum-battery lighting set for country houses.