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roden's brass.
" Buy our buses or—" That light vans often want large bodies.
Of Waring's coming military manoeuvres.
That it's a long worm that has no turning.
That the buses do play the deuce with macadam.
That one hears in "The Sanitary Record "now, too.
That H.M. the King used a Maudslay on manoeuvres.
That most men in the industry are at present "full beans."
That a. General can catch a Metropolitan but never a National.
That the inutility of most patents is becoming more pronounced.
That the West Ham Tram Conference showed unmistakable signs of funk.
That Croydon has removed a lot of its whining posters about its trains.
That new single-decked motorbuses are to run -through Blackwell Tunnel.
That the K.T. non-skidding proclivities are a source of wonder to pareelcar drivers.
That a lot of people are puzzled as to what. to do with their Chars-à--banes in winter.
That the Girling concern is to be floated, and that August would have been the best month.
Of the " spring " cleaning of the "Drive Near the Left Kerb" plates in the Hammersmith Road.
That garage foremen should remember that it's quicker for washers to get water from a tank than from a tap.
That it is a fact that certain types of vehicles possess an inherent propensity to sideslip into milk-carts and lamp-posts.
That the L.G.O. is running B-type ticket vans, painted like mail vans and with accommodation for ticket sorting en route.
Of the motorbus as "tabloid machinery," but the L.C.C. doesn't seem to be taking its medicine in small doses-23214 worth last week.
That a new London single-decker is reported, in the daily Press, to be as long as a tram—but not so long en route, it should be added.
That main-road hotel proprietors are proving to he exceedingly keen on the night-shelter scheme, which has also attracted much attention from architects and builders who want to be associated with it.
That those who enjoy pictorial humour would do well to examine the sample sketches of suggested illustrations which are being sent out to possible advertisers by a new drapery-trade publication, which hopes to run an authoritative " motor-note " section. Most on Thursdays.
Of the Waltharnstow works a,s the Bee-hive.
That parcelcar copyists are on the increase.
That Brum will have buses instead of trains yet.
That the bus-v.-tram discussion is a blessing to the dailies.
Of a 1000-guinea fire-engine as a present to Sear borou gh That 0.M.U.A. badge deliveries are still a bit be hind time. * * * That the shininess of wood-paved streets is a subject for reflection. * * * That a song they sing in garages is "Nuts, bolts and studs soon fly asunder."
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Of orders lost through the unqualified abuse of another firm's machines.
That because a designer is unconventional he is not necessarily inconsiderable.
That it takes different men to test poppet-valve engines and their sleeved rivals.
That breakdown towing chains must have a red lamp suspended halfway along them.
Of extensions, not unconnected with paraffin carburetters, at a well-known Luton works.
That heavy fire engines recently played sad havoc with roads in the Crystal Palace grounds.
That the bus companies are considering the possibility of rendering top decks habitable in winter time.
That the L.G.O. employees have their own approved benefit society, backed substantially by the company.
That those authorities who complain of motorbus competition should compare Ca,stelnau with Brentford High Street.
A crop of rumours about the future movements of prominent men in the tire trade, but nothing unkind or unfriendly.
That it's one thing to take obsolete models in part exchange and it's another to know what to do with them afterwards.
That Mr. Owen Clegg, late Wolseley and then Rover works manager, is now ditto and sole designer to Darraeq at Suresnes.
That most tradesmen are now interested in motor delivery, but that the majority are waiting to see what the other fellow is going to do.
That action is contemplated against the L.C.C. authority in respect of their conduit tramcars' being unlighted when passing track cross-overs.
That at a recent sale of property left in tube trains there were included : a lost appointment, a crutch (left behind by a lady who had been breathing Ozonair, one supposes), an ear-trumpet and a tin of sardines.