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That oil merchants like sleeves.
That electricity will come before alcohol.
That a. "Swan Song" for horses is in hand. * That one scribe wrote about Always and Onions. C That some brewers and millers send out 90 per cent. by motor.
That the Halley and the Pedrail are going to Patagonia.
That the Austin was the constructional tour-deforce of the Show.
That Show profits will bring up the S.M.M.T. investments to £70,000.
That no amount of overtime seems enough eliminate late delivery.
That the Minerva five-tanner is not to be submitted to Scotland Yard.
That managing directors of cotton mills are not impressed by boy salesmen.
That Men magnetos were fitted to Buessing, Mere6Ths, AlIdays and Globe machines.
That many who have lool That no artist's depiction of the St. Helens Cable Co.'s picnic on the banks of the Dee has yet seen daylight. That the bodywork at Olympia this month was held by some to be more varied and attractive than at any pleasure-ear show. That following the recent visit to Bristol of motoring leaders a low-level road to Avonmouth is to be constructed for heavy motor traffic. That the Daimler picnic on the Portsmouth road was a very pleasant interlude, and that the whole oeting was fundamentally instructive. That the Road Board has been inundated with apprehensive protests concerning a certain comprehensive map of all-England motor services. That; whilst 30 per cent. of the petrol-vehicle exhibitors this year had pleasure-car interests, the Thornycroft example will soon be followed by some. * That the gift of a Dennis ambulance by the Grand Duke Michael of Russia has been enormously appreciated by the Hampstead General and North-West London Hospital. From "The Morning Post," " Thursday, 31st (to Saturday, August 2nd).— Fourteenth anniversary of the Liverpool Selfpropelled Traffic Association's Heavy Vehicle Trials in 1899." That the Scout clutch is a corker. " Tales of Hoffmann " at Stand 111. That the Pedrail almost makes one creep. That whilst the Road's Beard so are the tubes. That Star made a brave show notwithstanding the fire. That there's more in that Globe drive than meets the eye. That it's evident the French W. 0. is not so particular as our own. That even Dean Swift's " Yahoos " would have felt out of it at the Show. That it was thought that Tilling-Stevens was the to man who did our cartoons. " Come lasses and lads," with appropriate maypole effects, on the Dainder stand, That they were selling those little Belsize vans to most of the visitors as they went out. That no one has, as yet, borrowed the 830-gallon Commer-Simonis fire-engine for a week-end joy-ride. That owners of high-priced pleasure ears don't like passing water-carts with the same maker's name on them. That there were many personal applications for inclusion in " The Extractor's" Gallery of Cartooned Celebrities, That the M.A.L.D.A.A.G. is of clean design and sound construction, but that it has used too much of the alphabet. That a lot of people wanted to know what was inside the Layeoek-Goodehild pareelcar and why the " ax] " was left out. That French W.O. radiatcr guards would make nice kitchen fenders and those on the British machines useful towel airen_. That a nasty accident occurred in the Gallery one day last week—somebody dropped a Show issue of the on his foot. That driving a fire-engine in a fog on a country road, a. certain driver swears he met a huge elephant —and later a keeper looking for it. That neither the Allchin or the Scammell drawbar device is intended to be operated by the fingers— as certain visitors found to their cost. Of indignation at the employment of British soldiers at Olympia to demonstrate French non -subsidy vehicles bought by the British War Office, and of unsatisfied inquiries as to who bought chain-driven nonBritish models with n.ear-side steering and control for the British Army