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Seasonable greetings on all hands.

Precious little but juvenile carollers lately.

That the lighting question is acetylene down nicely.

That "the sound of the horn roused us from our beds."

That what London cabbies want just now is the straight tip.

That it was the vans that got the puddings delivered in time.

That shopping parties like the five-seated cabs, and often use them for six.

That the model steam locomotive is giving place to the model motorbus.

That the arrival of the presents is preceded by the sound of the delivery-van horn.

Of a live-ton steamer carrying a load or holly and evergreens into Manchester on Saturday last.

That the early driver catches the early bird—when the Rothschild pheasants are being distributed.

That Christmas crackers are hardly a paying load for heavy vans, but that one big maker used them.

That a lot of the profit made in heavy vehicles during the year was spent in the Christmas bazaars.

That pheasants should be high, but not so high that a top-deck bus passenger can steal them with a length of wire.

That manufacturers of Commercial vehicles all admit that 1912 has finished well– the only worry being deliveries in 1913.

Of one lamp-post in Edgware Road which has not been knocked down for five years, but that several drivers have got their eyes on it.

That "Kenilworth," "The Beeches," "The Lawns" and " Horneleigh " still flourish in the long roads in spite of the drivers' eussings.

That "The Express" is conducting fuel trials as an expression of good feeling towards the industry, and that the industry ought to be much obliged.

That Warings have received an inquiry from Russia re the recent illustration of the headlight. fitted to their motorvans which appeared in this journal.

That the Rosebery Avenue tramway encampment has been moved 100 yards down the road, but that. although it is out of, our way, it is now in the way of the fire-engines. • That a parcelcar broke two springs in Streatham last week while delivering a few mincepies to a householder there, and that there was bound to be trouble due to overloading these seasonal times. Of a good man who wants a job as a storekeeper.

That Maticislay's are now delivering five-tortners. trouble with well-known paraffin Of unexpected carburetters.

That there may soon be another gathering of the cranks at the Guildh.all.

From Luton, of a Commie:ex tramcar, and that it might be called a trammercar.

That pure benzol freezes at 42 degrees Fahrenheit and 90 per cent. benzol at 5 degrees Fahrenheit.

That Sir John Berm preferred to use his blind eye when he saw " The Daily Telegraph" of the 17th inst.

That the activity amongst would-he patentees of lifeguards for motorbuses is becoming almost hysterical.

That Mr. Kellaway is making himself very unpopular in his own constituency, Bedford, by his antintotorbus campaign.

That an Eastern gentleman who wanted a lorry agency wrote : "I have always lusted after your machines, but they are too costive."

That people or undertakings which are very properly rated for benefits and services rendered do not relieve the rates in the true sense of the word.

That. the possible total yield of benzoI and toluol together from all gas tar in the United Kingdom is less than enough to run London's motorbuses for a month.

Great surprise at the recent announcement, at which we hinted several weeks ago that the Daimler Co. has exclusive rights to the sales of the B-type chassis.

Still more surprise that Mr, (Silent) Robert Bell is to have selling rights in London, from the Daimler Co., for the sale of both Daimler and B-type commercial chassis.

That other people besides Sir John Berm think that London motorbus drivers are encouraged to run more miles than their time-table suggests, owing to payment by mileage.

That the publication of a description in THE COMMtRC1AL MOTOR was claimed recently, in the South African courts, to constitute anticipation in regard to a speciality for which it was desired to secure a patent.

That Tilling's competition with the single-traek tramcars between Penge and Croydon is a most serious thing for the Croydon Corporation's obsolete system, as the motorbuses are now practically taking the whole of the traffic.

That any fuel which flashes below 73 degrees Fahrenheit is covered by the Petroleum Acts and Orders, and that the said measures also comprehensively include "any fuel defines) by this Act, or to which the Act is madeto apply

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