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4th January 1912
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Keywords : Tire

That 1912 must be the Sovereign year.

Of no new songs, but of lots of steady busiaess.

That the C.M.U.A. Will take up the night-storage problem.

That there was precious little merry weather this last Xmas.

That. plenty of sundry advertisements tell more than one story.

That Carter, Paterson and Co., Ltd., will next reach the horseless age.

More and more about the holiday charms of Switzerland in January and February.

That the Dennis people are being advised to enforce their original worm-drive patents.

That Mr. Montagu S. Napier is very bright and good company as a travelling companion.

That marine-store dealers and rag pickers may soon find it pay them to use commercial motors.

That no " tubustram " combine will prevent the advent of considerable new motorbus competition in London.

That drivers on many of the longest motorbus routes should not be quite so ready to omit to pick up woilldbe passengers.

That steam will fight hard again to retain yossession against petrol of the handsome silver challenge cup offered by this journal.

That the Peter Union Co.'s mile-age advertisement is regarded generally as quite one of the smartest hits in the tire publicity line.

That London taxi-drivers think THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR is served with inside news by one of themselves, and that they are not• far wrong.

That several railways are building new and improved special saloons for the conveyance of invalids and convalescents, to meet road-motor competition.

That Mr. Everard R. CaMiro!) has in hand some big new railway schemes for Mexico, and that motor transport will in due course have its share of the developments, That the great publishing world does not possess a

more-discriminating or be practical follower of commercial motoring than Mr. Mascord of

Edward Lloyd, Ltd.

That Messrs. Jas. Bartle and Co. have sold about 100 pairs of towing hooks to eointily with the WarOffice specification, and that the said type of hook has its commercial uses also.

That drivers and depot managers who are interested in the 1912 Parade are already shivering in anticipation of those unnotified engineer-inspeetor visits, but that they really need not be nervous. Of more tacking by L.C.C. tramcar wire-pullers.

That Mr. H. G. Sharp will have American interests_ That it will mean good-bye for more than one L.G.O.C. director.

That several inert in the solid-tire industry have beea incontinently seized with Bostonitis.

Protestations of exhaustion from the apologetic correspondence clerks of distraught manufacturers.

That scarcely a single maker of repute will be missing from the special prize-fund list for the 1912 Parade.

That early tarring in dry weather is the correct way to avoid greasy roads—according to our contemporary • •• The Surveyor."

That the past six months have given rise to some very heavy claims against motorcab owners in respect of running-down incidents_ That Mr. Cecil Routledge left for New York on Saturday last, aboard the " La sitania," and that Mr. Jack Damen did the same.

That Derry and Toms have been se pleased with their Napier vans that four are now in service with more to follow in the near future.

That Mr. G. W. Smith, the chairman of the Westminster Highways Committee, reproduced a photograph of a" Thorny " dust-cart on his Xmas card.

That " The Power Wagon " is really quite sorry it forgot to acknowledge that it lifted a two-page article on the Acton Cab Garage from our pages recently_

That the tenders for the supply of a motor vehicle to the Newport Mom Fire Brigade have been officially referred to the C.M.U.A. for report and recommendation.

That " The Sanitary Record " now runs a page of " One Hears," which it heads " We Hear," and that on the 21st December it therein took us to task in a friendly way.

That the estimate of 5,000 motorbuses for Greater London will one day be realized, and that before many more years slip by they will radiate a full 15 miles from Charing Cross.

That Sir Edgar Speye.r and his associates may yet get possession of a voting majority by purchasing L.G.O.C. stock, but that some of the big holders will not part in a hurry.

That people who sold their L.G.O.0 stock at £150 say they are sorry now, but that they none the less saved themselves numerous restless nights by taking profits when they did.

That Mr. F. A. Coleman, of the White Co., is to attempt a record "hustle north" for the Glasgow Show, that he will try to at-tempt to beat his Grahame-White achievement, hut that this time be will not be accompanied by a Pressman.


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