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Shell holders asking shall wel Some astounding reports about chassis prices. That the thin time has come for jitney owners.
That the Midlands and Lancashire never did hit it off.
That the will to win Californian petrol has been checked.
That £14,000,000 gross may be the produce of this year's motor taxation, That Ernest Bevin wants a conference to deal with exorbitant fines on drivers.
That there is still a good bit of American dump stuff to be absorbed in France.
-That the experience of Liverpool coach owners emphasizes the need for co-operation.
That, whilst Klaxons are forbidden in Paris, the " hooter is used by most drivers as a threat and not as a warning.
That the six-wheeler Paris omnibus is only practicable on routes with no sharp turnings and with a circus at each terminus.
That large numbers of small Chena,rd-Walcker pneumatic-tyred -tractors with low-built trailers are in use in and around Paris.
That the efforts of various designers to bring their high-speed motorbuses down to 3i tons unladen weight are proving successful.
That, whether the petrol pump does or does not conform to the Weights and Measures Act, it saves the motorist many waits and messes, That the haulier who charged 16s. to collect two chaldron of coke from a gas.,.works and carry it threequarters of a mile was not exactly cutting rates.
• That, strange to say, his clientele has started cutting him.
That the experiment authorized by Scotland Yard of dispensing with steel studded tyres on taxicabs will be watched with interest between now. and February.
That when the first photographs of the Japanese earthquake reached Arnerisa they were rushed by road from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under nine hours for nearly 500 miles.
That it's proving a bit of a problem for Col. Hacking to find accommodation and dates for all the conferences and meetings projected for Olympia between November 22nd and December 1st.
That over 700 Hekking tippers, for which the Leyland Co. hold the British rights, have been 'constructed by the French licensee and that there is an increasing appreciation in this country for the absence of power mechanism, in the design. Of several cases of swopping horses.
That they're still undecided in railway circles.
Of accentuated competition between British brake linings.
That the C.M.U.A. is pressing for an extended Summer Time in 1924.
That the Motor Legislation Committee is doing its best to remodel itself.
Someone calling Mr. Constantinesco's invention "the tick-tock torque converter."
Of undamaged concrete foundations being taken up prematurely by certain highway authorities.
That the County Councils. Association has not forgiven the S.M.M. 'and T. veto on their show.
That, at last, the figures for our exports of motor vehicles, chassis and parts show an excess over those of our imports.
—0 Expressions of pleasurable anticipation of a Very determined effort to recapture the overseas trade.
That the new Paris taxicabs excellent as landaulets, would net passScotlandYard for turning circle or luggage capacity.
Somebody questioning the use of marking the road with lines when so many drivers are being fined for having been over the line already.
That there has been a speeding-up, just lately, of London County Council tramcars, to the extent, apparently, of about 15 or 20 per cent.
Of one tramcar route where six minutes has been knocked off a journey that was previously timed for 35 minutes.
The question put to. those supposed to know, "What is the legal limit to the speed of a London tramea,r? "
That Citroen is the master advertiser in France and with master effect ; his daily display of 30 or 40 gaily painted delivery vans on the Champs Elysees, Paris, during the motor show, was better than putting anything in the Salon.
That Mr. Richard Tilling, as chairman of the London and Provincial Omnibus Owners Association, and Mr. Hamilton Hobson, as president of the S.M.M. and T., will take their share of duty in the chair at sessions of the Olympia Road Traffic Conference on the 27th and 28th prox.