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That our star should be a bigger one.
Of newcomers in, and outgoets from, the fire-engine world.
• * * Nothing, nowadays, about Manchester's being a bad place for a show.
That Rochdale wasn't going to be hurried, but that Salford is even worse.
Demands for stout non-skid jacketi for use upon fire-engines to which endless tires are fitted.
Everything about the disappointment of makers who belong neither to the S.M.M.T. nor its local section.
That the vaporizing of naphthalene appeals to chemists more than the so-called solidifying of petroleum spirit.
That, there are not many rooms unhooked at the Midland Hotel in Cottonopolis between the 17th and the 25th inst.
That the recent crowding-out process, as applied to nonmembers of the S.M.M.T., was designed to have a crowdingin effect.
That L.G.O.C. ordinary stock really ought not to stand at a higher quotation than that obtaining for the same company s C debentures.
That people who know never supported the claims of parties who inferred or said that they could get 90 ton-miles of running from a gallon of petrol.
That in London it's supposed to be level odds that there will not be another Scottish exhibition, but that different views are held north of the Tweed.
That, though times are bad, the smoking cars on the South London tubes are at night time full of homeward-bound cigarsmoking drivers from the General Cab Co.'s garage at Brixton.
That Glasg,ow's Cleansing Department, which is supposed to be progressive, may yet take on a second motor move, and that memories are not to be allowed to remain in the way for ever and ever.
That London newspaper-publishing offices are making increasing use of taxicabs for certain afternoon and evening distributions, and that they find the impromptu services thus commanded to be cheaper and better than any alternatives.
That none of the trackless-trolley Bills will, even supposing they get through Parliament, be of much use to various municipal and other promoters, owing to the undoubted in sistence of the House upon conformity with the provisions of the Motor Car Acts in respect of axle-weights and speeds.
That it will actually be 10 years on the 4th June since Lord-mayor Briggs entertained the competitors, officials and visitors, in the reception chamber of the Manchester Town Hall, at the conclusion of the first day's run. from Liverpool. of the petrol and steam vehicles which were then (1901) participating in the third public trials organized by the Self-Propelled Traffic Association. Tall stories from owners who are make -proud.
More wails from rubber speculators who bought at the to * Eleven o'clock pan. striking for some C.M.U.A. sub-con mittees this month.
That the only way to fill an order book is to construe vehicles which draw followers That the wider use of dissolved acetylene is responsible fc a great purification of drivers' language.
That one way to keep a winter wheel quiet and smoot is stated to be to keep turning down the metal.
That the Festival of Empire people wanted to call th parade a carnival, but that wiser counsels prevailed.
That the C.M.U.A. has struck an idea, in the Colonial-r( eeption and conducted visit scheme, that has caught on.
That East will meet West at Manchester, seeing that vis tors from both Hull and Liverpool intend to go to the Shoe
That the Conneil of the S.M.M.T. will in no circumstance attempt hereafter to organize another Commercial-vehiel show in London.
The question " What next?" and the answer "The User: Experiences—Costs and Results—Issue," of course, and tha it is only two weeks ahead.
That the Rusholme (Manchester) exhibition buildings ar less than two minutes on foot beyond the neighbouring tei minus of a well-served electric-car route.
That the next tire leaflet will tell about complete set( fitted at one and the same date, with more than 2i years c service and 35,000 miles of running to their credit.
That a self-contained cold-storage equipment as part of motor vehicle might be worked out to better advantage tha the mere combination of a heavy insulated body and standard chassis.
That the new breed of London taxi-driver, which corn prises the topographically-ignorant beginners, who, since th exhaustion of the eligible horse-cabbies, have been studyin London by morn, noon and night, is steadily getting 'leave to the point of self-assertion.
That the Granite Road Corporation, the formation of whicl was under coniideration in 1906. as a big contemplated uncle' taking to construct and maintain macadamized roads, ma take positive shape before long, and that it will naturall. be a purchaser of wagons, tractors and rollers.
That people have talked so much about the resemblanc between the names of the " Car and General" and the "Law Car and General," which latter company is now in liquids Lion, that it looks as though the older concern would benefi in the end from circumstances w hich at one time were not little disconcerting to its management.