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That petrol's ceasing to flow.
Of another ballot:, d' essai gone wrong.
A tirade by would-be parade copyists.
To be wanted is not the same as to be needed.
That wilful means that to which the will is party.
That there will be no successful Manchester Parade tIris year.
That a well-known London cab company will not last three weeks. *
That what THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. does one week is by no means ignored the next.
That the Parade is now taken up as a good means of advertising things both good and bad.
That what was tried in road-carrying from Liverpool 10 years ago is now a proved and simple undertaking.
That mail-van contractors should not overlook the wages and overtime clauses in the G.P.O. form of contract.
That the Bath and West Show is generally far enough from the Royal to render it worthy of proportional attention.
That the pending and threatened railway strike of next July and August will open more eyes to the claims of motor transport.
That. a deputation from Chipping Sodbury R.D.C. went lo Bath Show to inspect the steam rollers, and there was only one on the ground.
That some motorcab canopies are so flimsy that drivers can see the sky through them, and that their use for luggage would be impossible.
That not every manufacturer uses a postcard or other printed form of acknowledgment to show appreciation of Press notices, but that some do.
That E.G.O.O. body-builders are on overtime and double shifts—making lorry bodies, and that there is not to reason why with a transport strike in progress.
That there will be a, wider and wider gulf between the military authorities and commercial-motor owners if some of the old diplomacy does not invade ihe new War Office.
That a, few British manufacturers have taken the trouble to go to 73, Basinghall Street, E.C., to see certain Australian data in the possession of the Commercial Intelligence office there.
That King's weather has twice favoured the Parade, but. that the sea breezes from the Thames on Monday last were indeed acceptable in comparison with last. year's stagnation in those side-streets.
That the new "26 tons tensile" aluminium alloy is just as good and homogeneous after a year or two as when it is first run, and that this quality is the one which will make peonle do more than talk about it.
That a new motorbus service is nowadays started with the best and latest vehicles, whereas a few years ago each working garage got rid of its lame ducks when ordered to supply so many to make the new
road. Another bad ease of boiling over.
Many a chuckle from owners and drivers.
That the transport strike has come prematurely.
That the C.M.U.A. goes on making strides in membership.
That rumours about Thames motor coaches in local service at Tunbridge Wells are unfounded.
That there are not fewer than 20 reasons for delays and losses in railway haulage, and that many of them take effect daily. , That Borough Councils should concentrate upon genuine improvement schemes and the Road Board, rather than upon suggestions for additional motorbus taxation, if they eish to get forrader.
That during recent railway troubles in the north, a motor coach, with troops on board, arrived at a si ing bridge over a river just as a mob was attempting to open it and so to imperil the rail traffic.
That five cloth-laden motor lorries may often be ed at one time outside tire same warehouse in Manchester, but that delays are not serious enough to justify the completion of delivery by horses and " flats."
That Sit David Salomons, Bart., recently delivered a much-appreciated lecture on Radium at Tunbridge Wells, and that sonic residents were surprised to hear that it cannot yet be used to drive the. local inetorbuses.
That road surveyors generally are at last waking up to the fact that dust can be removed from highways by the use of soft brooms and hard shovels, but that Mr. H. P. Maybury, of Kent, acted upon that simple yet effective plan years ago.
That the managing director of a large motoreab company, whose interest, was purchased upon his retirement, has had to refund the money which was paid to him, as he was not prepared to go through with subsequent reconstruction schemes.