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That the starting gear on the Foster is startling.
That Earp was suddenly requested by cable to return to India.
That no parcelcar yet on the market deserves to be christened the boxotrix.
That Kropps people are keen on their Warrick parcelcar for sharp delivery.
That more than 500 Wood-Milne foot-pumps were sold in London alone last week.
That some surveyors of income tax are adopting the War-office scale of depreciation.
That if Scotland Yard insists on much lighter motorbuses there will be some heavy smashes.
That Hugh Kerr-Thomas will sail by the R.M.S. " Mauretania" from Liverpool on Saturday.
That everybody's using parcelcar, and that we have generously presented the word to the industry.
Something of argument when the little Alldays van was persuaded to leave Olympia until next July.
That it will surprise many to see who will sell both I L.G.O. B-types and Daimler three-tonners in London and elsewhere.
That the R.I.A. conference with Middlesex County Councillors, at the G.N.R. Hotel, King's Cross, on Friday Last, was voted a, success.
That donations to the C.M.U.A. 1913 Parade funds are coming in well—particularly, during the past few days, from petrol-vehicle makers.
That one use for horses in the New World is to drag dead ones across blazing crops, and that as fire extinguishers they take some beating.
That Mr. J. G. Barford, who became mayor of Peterborough last month, followed his father in the office after an interval of some 28 years.
That if coal is found in Kent to any extent the S.F. and C.Ry., will have to spend at least £6,000,000 on doubling certain lines to London, and that it will all take time.
That pneumonia unfortunately attacked several drivers of subsidized motor transport after the last manceuvres, and that this was due to lack of ordinary care on the part of the military authorities.
That commercial men should hesitate once and yet I again, before they pay 1800 for a three-tonner, or £700 for a 1i-tonner, under the War-office subsidy scheme, as the extra prices will need a lot of seeing back.
That would-be new entrants for the splendid cash , and other prizes for drivers and owners of motorvans and other motor vehicles for commercial purposes should apply at once to the Secretary of the C.M.U.A. for 1913 Parade particulars. Of motor drivers set to do clinker-picking by way of punishment.
From Leeds, that Fowlers intend to take up the Wyles motor plough.
That the east coast is to have a big petrol-storage installation at Saltend.
That the Petrol Committee will take benzol evidence on the 16th inst.
That the Daimler sales-department deal with the L.G.O.C. was not made for nothing.
That petrol in tank store loses about 10 per cent. of its bulk by evaporation in six months.
The song of the Shell : we've got the wells, we've got the ships, we've got the money too.
That direct roads to Southport is the highway gospel in some parts of Lancashire just now.
That everybody decent was glad when Sir Edward Henry escaped death at the hands of a would-be assassin.
That petrol can be made from solar oil and sold at 6d. per gallon with a profit, and that the process will be made public next week.
That No. 2 of "The Cyclecar " was published yesterday (Wednesday), and that the total circulation of No. 1 actually reached 100,000 copies.
That the Editor of a Swedish paper has written Waring and Gillow, Ltd. asking for a photograph of the driver's uniform, which he had seen in this journal.
That Mr. B. Isaac, late with the Grahame-White Co., has been appointed to the Traffic Development Department of the combined London Electric Railways.
That the guiding principle of Turkish road-construction was in extension of, and not in parallel with, the railways, but that no guarantee of quality is implied.
That by the 1st January 300 route-miles of thoroughfare in Greater London will be served by motorbuses, and that it will soon be two-to-one against the tramcars.
That plenty of buyers are ready to order motor tank-wagons for the conveyance of petrol in bulk by road, but that they all must wait for the Homeoffice conditions.
That Mr. H. P. Maybury's salary has been raised from £1000 to £1500 a year, and that everybody in Kent, as well as many out of that county, know how well he has earned the increase.
That " P.M.G." pareelcars, which are made by the Premier Motor Co., might appropriately be bought by the "Pall Mall Gazette "—unless Mr. Self-satisfied Garvin has any law to lay down on this subject too.
That the Inst. A. E. says it always turns on the old gang to do the speaking, because there are no others willing to illuminate the meetings by holding forth, but that the secretary may now begin to look out some new men of the right calibre.