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" here and there. Sparkles sometimes, overflows always. Very many from Lancashire this time. Of the cinematography of silent chains. Forty-three things this week (count and see). That official efficiency is an impossible thing. That Mandslay's are building a subvention model.
That Lord Cowdray is taking up tar-road construction.
That the Coventry Chain Co. turns out 3000 cycle chains a week.
Of big demands for the Manchester Show numbers from newsagents.
That fortune can be greater than misfortune and yet be very small.
That design is apt to be groovey till staff members begin to change places.
That a printer is always a gentleman, according to the Heralds' College.
That motor ambulances and motor fire-engines simply eat up the Sheffield hills.
That too much entertainment is being offered in order to influence certain orders.
That, on the whole, the inventor per se doesn't make the best chief draughtsman.
Of a man, asked was he ready to respond to a toast, who muttered " I should like to be.'
That, the new Deasy van chassis has it gearbox carried on its propeller-shaft casing.
That the Lancashire County Council objects to being told it is five years late with its road programme.
That the N. and E. Lancs. C.M.U.A. is proud of the fact that it is the first local organization to affiliate with the C.M.U.A.
That the War Office will this year ask tenders for 100 subsidy-type three-tonners, and that they will probably do so not later than July.
That the newcomer who expects to pick up gold easily from the stony ground of motor carrying in Lancashire is quickly disillusioned.
That the public will learn to do without taxis before the taxis come back, if the parties concerned go on doing without the public much longer.
That a few motor-hating boroughs in Lancashire are showing distinct signs of relenting, due to proposals for the erection of new works, within their rateable area, that can only be served by motor wagons. That everybody's copying de Dion clutches.
That there is an increasing demand for short wheel bases and narrow frames.
That the first new de Dion buses didn't suit Scotland Yard, but that they ara to try again.
That double-helical gearing runs quietest when on wheel is loose enough on its shaft to follow.
That "The Daily Telegraph thinks the names. of French steam men are Seysollet and Purney.
That rubber at 2s. 6d. per lb. in 1915 or 1916 is not thought to be any dream on the Stock Exchange.
That the Daimler Co. has over 90 demonstration. vehicles at work all over this and other countries.
That motor traffic causes surface corrugations on some weak roads, and waves on other weak roads.
That old ladies can still flutter across the streets in London, due to the comparative absence of taxicabs.
That in no county is the value of protection against the weather for drivers better known than in Lancashire.
That the fine new warehouse that is going down for Messrs. Ralli Brothers, near Bridge Street, Blackfriars Manchester, is specifically laid out for motor and d flat" work.
That the Anglo-Persian Oil Co.'s refinery at Abadan, which is situated 44 miles below Bassorah, received the bulk of its pipe-line equipment. by motor transport from the coast.
That Mr. Frank Searle was recently in Munich,. to start the first line of Daimler motorbuses, and that the initial service began with seven vehicles, whilst there are 33 more to go.
That one reason why rubber tires are fitted extensively in Lancashire is because lorry owners can time certain work better, but that it's no use doing this if terminal waits are beyond the back-load limit.
That a correspondent in " The Evening Standard" of the 20th inst., concluded his letter : In provincial towns, there is hardly a motorbus which has a back wheel affixed, and risks incurred thereby are real."
That coke prices are steadied in Lancashire and. Yorkshire by occasional shipments to Norway and Sweden in returning paper-pulp steamers, and also, by the growing practice of mixing a. little with coal under stationary boilers.
That at least one far-seeing steam-wagon builder has already decided to put through new designs for lighter vehicles to run on indiarubber tires, and that one means to have a new department equipped for large output in 1915 and subsequent years.
That, amongst the many interested members of an audience which listened to Mr. John Redmond, in the Drill Hall, at Coventry, last Saturday, Mr. Percy Martin, Mr. A. J. White and Mr. P. A. Poppe, Mr. A. M. Rowland, and other prominent men in the. industry were present.