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From the Irrigation Department of the Union of South Africa (under date the 10th March) Will you kindly put as in touch with the makers or agents of the • Motor Plough for the Small Holder, to which you refer on page 46 of the Overseas Annual ?"
From the Goodyear Tyre & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio (under date the 20th March),:—" We found The Overseas Annual very interesting ; it gives a very clear idea of the motor-truck situation in ,England. We are very anxious to subscribe to some equally-good French and German magazines on motor trucks, and would ask you to recommend such publications."
From the National Trading Co., Ltd., Port Elizabeth' (under !date the 21st February) :-"IWe had already requested our newsagent to order a copy of the 1913 Overseas Annual some little time back. We must compliment you upon it ; it is a most marvellous production, and it should prove a valuable source of information to every Colonial importer. It is one of the most attractive trade journals we have ever seen."
That not all the L.C.C. electric cars are at work again yet.
That the monotony of Thornycroft reliability is wearisome.
From Messrs. Bockemilhi and Copifinger, touring in the Taunus district.
That Mr. S. F. Edge is most sanguine as to the future of electric-car-lighting sets.
That the L.G.O.C. is further studying the question of a free view all round for drivers.
That London taxi-cabbies find both custom and tips diminished since their return to work.
That it pays A. W. Gamage to send a 30-cwt. machine 22 miles to transport four bee-hives.
That Fillet of Godling was an appetising item of the menu at the L.G.O.C. Battersea Garage dinner.
That yesterday's Annual Meeting of the C.M.U.A. was even a more-tranquil function than that of the R.A.C. on Monday last.
That Messrs. White and Poppe will first give the present users of their engines the advantage of their new paraffin carburetter.
That the Arrol-Johnston lead at its new Dumfries works, in the matter of turning out battery-driven electric vehicles, is typical of Mr. T. C. Pullinger's entc rp rise.
That, when a taxi is required in Manchester, a Belsize is usually asked for, but that the other day a porter announced to a would-be hirer that a GarageBelle had arrived instead.
That not every member of the C.M.U.A. has yet sent on the prospectus which accompanied the Annual Report to a likely new member, but that many have done so, whilst others will.
That Mr. Thomas Clarkson has been transferred from the associate members' list to that of the full members, in the Institution of Civil Engineers, under (late the 11th March, and in company with Mr. Thornycroft Donaldson of Southampton. That it Maximall jealous.
That not everything from a driver's mouth is true.. Little and seldom from many of the best workers. That " Continental" tennis bails are a 1913 " cert."
That Mr. J. C. Walker is to take over the Yorkshire agency for Garretts.
That forcing the pace is a factor in both private and commercial use.
That Sheffielders like their motorbuses the morethey see and use them.
That fewer people nowadays stand with toes overhanging London kerbs.
That if more people kept their heads in traffic fewer would lose their feet.
Of many applications from unexpected sources forthe C.M.U.A. annual report.
That nobody—least of all the man himself—knows what the average pedestrian will do next.
That the porter at the AthenEeum was very cross,. but that he couldn't get us away until we got the picture.
That accidents and carelessness both come and go together, but that the pedestrian is frequently the originating cause and the exciting condition.
That the vulnerable routes of a tramway undertaking are those with single tracks and passing-places, seeing that motorbuses don't have to wait.
That some intending exhibitors are sure to forget that applications for space at the Olympia Show of July must be formally lodged with deposit on or before Monday next.
That, according to the 2nd March "Cincinnati Enquirer," " John Muir, Strand, London, England, who was at the auto show last week, is the inventor of a device vouched for by the largest users of motor traction in the world" and that Mr. Muir is, much impressed.