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That Allchin means to get on top.
Renewed rumours of L.G.O. steam possibilities.
Too much of sales on hire-purchase and two-year terms.
That seven years ago is not "lately" in motorbus history.
That the Show numbers of "The Motor" will excel all precedents.
Of action by the R.S.P.C.C. against certain owners of cycle carriers.
Of a few cab owners seriously experimenting with paraffin carburetters.
That a new K.P.L. is in London from Coventry for demonstration purposes.
L.C.C. claims to be the London traffic authority pronounced inadmissible.
That much small stock for this year's Cattle Show will arrive by road motor.
That the near-side steering position on many steam wagons is an awkward one.
Of a new German magnetic speedometer which Will be put on the market in November.
That "The City Press" thinks the Home Counties Transport Co. is the pioneer of its kind.
That there is every prospect of good weather for the Olympia private-car show of next month.
That "comptroller" is not the American way of spelling it., though it may be of doing it.
That a remarkable two-wheeled gyroscope car is under construction in a big Midland works.
That " The Daily Mail " has at last discovered that cyclists are an unmitigated nuisance in traffic.
That Bernas, whilst popular with gas companies, do not themselves burn as much gas as do some lorries.
That more and more owners are having canopies or other protective coverings above the heads of their drivers.
That London's new western highway will have to pass through vicissitudes as well as to undergo deviations.
That Birmingham intends to seek powers to use trailer-tramcars along Bagley Road and other thoroughfares.
That experiments are being made with regard to new decency screens and advertisement boards on motorbus staircases.
That Mr. Edward Manville has become chairman of a new Russian transport syndicate, and that the flotation will be for about 2150,000. That Major W. E. Donohue will retain his post as chief inspector of Army mechanical transport for another four years.
That C. R. Price, of 87, Bishopsgate, E.C., is becoming a popular man in the motor trade when rapid factory extensions are wanted.
That the Mors Co. is putting a new light delivery van on the market, and that their factory output is reported to be sold up to October, 1913.
Of a sweep, of a muffin man, and of a rag and bone merchant, all of whom now use commercial-motor vehicles, though not of the latest types.
Of a new four-tonner of a well-known make delivered late at night, as there were many other customers expecting delivery of the same machine.
That the Wolseley Co. has orders for several of its new 30-cwt. vans, although none are yet completed, and that one of the first was from the Admiralty.
That a Charlottenburg (Berlin) professor who advises the Prussian military authorities has rather gone out of his way to condemn sleeve-valve engines.
That the police think London motorbuses should not spend so much time at picking-up points, and that many of the passengers have thought this for a long time.
That when motorbus interests meet the crush-hours difficulty they will kick away the last prop of the tottering tramcar, and that there's no reason why they shouldn't.
That L.C.C. officials never dwell upon the small proportion of street-widening charges that is debited to the tramcar undertaking, but that the trams only bear about five per cent. of the whole.
That visitors to the Olympia private-car show, which will open on the 8th November, might. do very much worse than stay at the Knightsbridge Palace Hotel—London's newest building of the kind.
That a new taximeter will shortly be fitted which, when the flag is placed in the " Stop " position, will start registering by time after the elapsing of two and a half minutes, the reason for which arrangement is obvious.
That Mr. Searle did a plucky trip on a new Daimler motorbus between Vienna and Buda-Pesth without even a spanner on board, as the kit had gone astray on the railway, but that his confidence in the machine was justified.
That the organization of the Wolseley Co. is now modelled on the best U.S.A. practice. and that Mr. A. A. Remington, as chief engineer, is in charge of the works and has a number of departmental managers directly resuonsible to him, end that Mr. Arthur McCormack, of course, still remains Managing Director of the comnany.
That on Thursday morning last there appeared in these columns a paragraph which read : "That if Walthamstow does not relay its tramways soon, there will be a nasty accident there," and that on the same evening a tramcar rounding a curve on a hill in Forest Road, Walthamstow, left the rails, crashed into two vans, and injured a horse.