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That the gyro didn't go last Friday.
Many eomplaints from tarred people. That Mr. Balfour is now an Hon. M.Inst.C.E. Of a depression in U.S.A. heavy-motor exports. That the battery may be battered by the Budget.
That Tilling-Stevens motorbuses are being dispatched to Lisbon.
That the cost of the Ford 48-hour week is largely recouped by publicity for it.
That wide wheels don't reduce pi eseure intensity unless they run on flat roads.
That valves are more often the cause of high consumption than are carburetters.
That a sleeve-valve motorbus engine thinks nothing of running 50,000 miles without overhaul.
That Mr. F. W. Lanehester, M.Inst.C.E., will deliver the 22nd "James Forrest " lecture on the 5th May.
That there will be a baby Brooklands i rack at the White City, Shepherd's Bush, after the lig May.
That Germany uses over 40 million gallons of denatured alcohol a year, while we use only four millions.
Of some Stagg and Robson wheels which have been running for over nine years on a Straker-Squire steamer.
That a group of American financiers, hostile to Sir Edgar Speyer, has its London motorbus intentions in the shaping.
That a quick (and -in. New York City compulsory) method of " damping " a glaring headlight is to rub a film of soap over the glass.
That, according to "The Scotsman," wherever two or three county councillors are gathered together the question of the road and the motor vehicle ;irons up.
That owing to a shortage of buses last Sunday night at Chisleharst, a large private car was used for supplementary service, but that there was eo police plate on it.
rhat the L.C.C. will at an early date take into serious consideration the acquirement of motorbuses, and that some members feel they can by no other means keep level with the times.
That "The Light Car and Cyclecar " will contain the best reports concerning the gathering and trials of light cars which will centre upon Harrogate from Saturday next, the 2nd May, for one week, and that the Grand Hotel will be the headquarters.
That the Budget date remains uncertain.
That Southport is not encouraging chars-à-banes.
That many a driver makes more than the engineer in charge of a small fleet.
That it is suggested to lay a mosaic floor in a eere tain new Midland garage.
That often on the most highly-polished bus the conductor has the dirtiest coal.
That most motorbuses run a greater daily mileage than many tank locomotives.
That a lady at Hendon was heard to inquire as to which bus service Grahame White's aerobus belongs.
That a great. many private-hire L.G.O.C. buses are hired by parties of di ivers themselves for a day out.
That Messrs. j. Sainsbury the provision merchants are installing a 1000-gallon Bowser petrol-storage tank for their fleet of Milnes-Daimlers.
In a. contemporary, of a Humberette which found room for two ladies in fur coats on each rear mudguard, and yet of no complaints of overloading.
That some overhead tramway wires in the Midlands are a source of danger now that commercial vehicles are regularly carrying big loads along the main roads.
That it is by no means an infrequent thing for a police stop to be issued by the London P.C.O. against a• bus for a loose lamp bracket or destination board.
That a driver, in starting a Ford taxicab engine in a Midland town the other day, had to lean up against the bonnet to stop the car's advancing while he did so.
That the M.T. Committee of the W.O. would like to see the new Subsidy plaques put on to lorries instead of the C.M.U.A. badge, and h.ave, expressed a wish to that effect.