One Hears
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What one hears.
That a General training cab is fitted with Blackwell auxiliary rims and carries no spare tire.
Innumerable inquiries over the telephone for vans and wagons to do emergency delivery service.
That the bulk of new membership of the A.A. and M. U. is constituted exclusively of motor-cyclists.
That the railway and other strikes of the month incidentally gave an impetus to the use of motor hearses.
That 800,000 gallons of tar went into Kent roads with good results during the 12 months ended the 31st March last.
That Mr. F. Searle is fixed up with the Daimler Co.—to take charge of the commercial-vehicle department at Coventry.
That benzol was used by several South-Lancashire owners when they were unable to get supplies of petrol a week or two ago.
That a noteworthy improvement accruing from the recent strike was the temporary abandonment of police traps all over the country.
That some steam-wagon owners who pay their men a standing wage of 30s. a week give progressive daily bonuses for each completed journey.
That Lancashire working men, instead of putting their savings into cottage property or public-houses as of yore, are now buyers of commercial motors.
That Merrywealher's directors have under consideration requests for improved conditions of labour from various sections of their employees.
That the Quebec streets are so narrow and badly maintained that taxi-drivers make nearly double mileage through the necessity for them to dodge the many holes.
That the qualifications of a successful driver of a motor carrier's van must also include the ability to spin yarns of all kinds to the middle-aged-village ladies who are passengers. That Julian Halford, who now becomes our U.S.A. correspondent, is regarded as a fine-weather mascot by his fellow passengers on the Cunard R.M.SS. Lusitania " and "Mauretania.'
That the Bolton Police Court, which rivals in its voraciousness that of Andover, Hants., some eight years ago, is taking more than 2400 a year in fines out of tile pockets of drivers and owners. * * *
That this extraordinary summer has provided wheelwrights all over the country with innumerable jobs for the shrinking of iron tires on to wheels that hive shrunk during spells of 90 degrees in the shade.
That a Canadian method of keying advertising results, or of securing a means to aid the sorting of the inward mail, is to ask correspondents to address their communications to " Desk so-and-so, a letter or a numbei Following That several Sout ti-African agricultural societies think they will t. tr.; t British, American and Canadian man1,!acturel of oil tractors to send engines to Cape Colony o or.pete for a prize of £100, but that they had bettet think again.
That McNamara's start upon the London-Bristol motor-borne parcel mail, which is fixed for to-morrow (Friday), has been prefaced by the usual personal inspection and tour of the road by "The Colonel" with son and heir Ken at the wheel.
Of an important firrn of wharfingers employing several hundred horses which has requested a wellknown builder of commercial vehicles to send down and discuss the possibilities of motor transport in toto immediately this strike trouble is over."
That the Camberwell Boiough Council has been using a. motorbus to enable its workmen to lop off the spreading branches of limes and planes in the leafy streets of the borough, and that this excellent method of keeping headway for top-deck passengers might be followed with advantage in other places.
That British manufacturers, by their failure to reply to inquiries per return mail, lose a great deal of Canadian trade to American manufacturers, and that people on this side too often overlook the fact that a Canadian business man knows the steamer by which his letter travels and makes a note of that by which a " slick " answer should come, failing the receipt of which he simply buys across the frontier.