One Hears— That the Overseas Annual is being well advertised.
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From Mr. Thomas Clarkson, that any extra tank is for fuel—not water.
That next time Tilling's give a Press lunch, visitors will be invited to spend the day.
That a certain well-known trader wishes to buy a couple of light carriers for 1 ,,-cwt net loads, That Sir George Gibb is not always the personification of geniality, but that he is seldom rattled.
That second-hand tramcars are the latest offer, but that they happen to be petrol ones from the White City.
That near-side rubber tires, more often than not, show signs of wear more quickly than do those on the off side.
That the " C.M." officially tested the consumption of some of the Westminster Council's motor wagons last Wednesday.
That the increase of commercial and other motorvehicle traffic has necessitated much expert evidence in the courts.
That provincial visitors think that parts of the Great Northern and Piccadilly tube are the noisiest spots in London.
That the L.G.O.C, report and accounts may be out before Monday, and that nobody will get much change out of them.
That Manchester's asinine taxi-tariff, while it causes local hirers to suffer impositions, does not help horse interests.
That Mr. Curzon, who has charge of the sales of the L.G.O. Co.'s old-type chassis, was, at a recent concert, down to "lie as usual."
That London cabdrivers, as a rule, prefer a Unionist Government to be in power, as fares are declared to be more liberal at such a time.
That a speaker at a recent formal gathering commenced "One hears—by kind permission of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR—that, etc," That tire manufacturers might reduce particular forms of competition were they to offer to buy back old tires of their own production.
That Hans Renold driving chains for use in factories are taking the place of costly and inefficient belting for numerous heavy jobs.
That the American engineers had been so well fed and feted that many of them were glad to drop out of part of the programme towards the end.
That next year's popularity of chain-drive gearboxes will more than compensate chain-makers for the wider use of propeller shafts and worm finals, That little more will be heard of the " That Sir Hiram Maxim thinks little of Yankee motor construction.
That at a motorbus dinner on Friday last, the celery arrived, after a struggle, at 8.541 p.m.
That the Paris octroi duty on horse-flesh has been reduced, and that this should aid the commercialvehicle industry.
That the average point-to-point speed of a rubbertired five-ton petrol lorry is on lots of jobs easily three times that of a steel-tired steamer.
That Ferodo is being satisfactorily employed through a range of service which varies from stairtreads to colliery-shaft and quarry-run brakes.
That it is much better to drive the camshaft and magneto from the flywheel end of the crankshaft, and that more designers intend to do so in future.
That the Central London tube lifts now have a notice " Pass Right Across the Lift " at each end, and that the only safe place is exactly in the middle.
That the Lancashire and Cheshire Centre of the Roads Improvement Association is making great strides under the chairmanship of Mr. A. Lyle Rathbone.
That more experiments have recently been made in U.S.A. with steam taxicabs, as trouble is often experienced there when standing on a rank in wintry weather.
That extra activity in Brundrit's and Darbishire's amalgamated Penmaenmawr granite quarries furnishes but one of many instances of demands due to motor traffic.
That the Liverpool Fire Brigade made heavy use of its three-ton rubber-tired Sentinel steamer, in connection with the fire at Bibby's oil-cake mill, on Friday and Saturday last.
That the L.C.C. Highways Committee is very sick because the Council's statistical department is unable to force the L.G.O.C, to communicate its passenger and mileage figures.
That people who are thinking of submitting offers of hospitality during the International Road Congress of 1913 should take time by the forelock now, and write to Mr. Rees Jeffreys.
That some tons of stampings which left a Sheffield works just before the railway strike in August finished their wanderings only last week, and that experiences of the kind have been not uncommon sequels to that strike.
That makers of winter wheels cannot persuade buyers to use devices and treads of the kind only upon snow, and that the consequences of resulting excessive wear are really upon the heads of those who run them at other times--except that this assertion does not meet the case of snow on the hills and thaw in the dales.