One Hears— Of the Hurta's virtue.
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That not all the motor nuts are v( getarians.
That nobody's been walking who could ride.
That is was almost a heavy-vehicle Derby day.
That electro-mechanical railcars are forging ahead on the Continent.
That Albions sales are radiating from 283, Deansgate, Manchester.
That the light Hurtu van was carrying sausages all one day last week.
That the hot weather seems to have made a lot of motorbus drivers exceed the limit.
That the publicity stand at Olympia—that of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR--Will be No. 17, That a favoured holiday for "Wakes" week is a return trip to London by char-6aba,nes.
That wire cable may prove " the thing" for the bottom frame of motorbus life-guards.
That it takes a big field to demonstrate a. modern Colonial-type agrimotor to advantage.
That the L.G,O.C. might do good service by having a go at the Isle of Wight this summer.
That after the International Road Congress the Press will have had its fill of congresses.
That the estimate of 16 miles as the radius for London motorbus services has been exceeded.
That few exhibitions are so ready on the opening day as those which have a large motor interest.
That "Vox et prseterea, nihil " has not yet been adopted as a motto by any motor manufacturer.
That a few municipally-owned tramcar undertakings would be made to sit up if they had to face competition.
That there should be a bus route from Oxford Street, east of the Circus, down Regent Street and into Piccadilly.
That Lancashire and Yorkshire millowners know too much about the economy of superheated steam to believe when they hear it belittled or condemned ad hoc.
That the remarkable two-colour section, as well as the coloured cover of next Tuesday's special "Tourist Trophy" issue of " Motor Cycling' is likely to create something like a sensation.
That much of Mr. Kellaway's cross-examination of Mr. Stanley was mere dialectical heckling, and that not everybody realized why he did not finish quoting the London Borough conference resolutions.
That the Inst. A.E. delegates to the U.S.A. are now (5th to 7th inst) enjoying a joint congress with the American Soc. A.E. aboard the largest freshwater steamer in the world, the " City of Detroit," cruising the Great Lakes. "Model or muddle ?"
Superheat or superman?
That not every muddle is a model.
From some who say "No Show comes our way."
That nothing has no small—and it's the same with paraffin.
That the Bath and West Show had the worst of the weather.
That it is a dull week which does not bring a new paraffin carburetter.
That the Roumanian War Offiehas bought a large batch of Adler lorries.
That less than three makers of subsidy models will show them at Olympia.
That the subsidy models should have been advertised at the Tournament.
That there are a few surprising absentees from the Olympia list of exhibitors.
That it was never intended to fit Smith's speedometers to the Derby runners.
That emergency bus services to territorial camps are overloaded but paying actualities.
That gallons of water per mile count more than lb. of coal per mile with many steam-wagon owners.
That the new berth of assistant secretary to the Road Board at 2500 a year is about to be created.
That it's thought the petrol-vehicle people must have nobbled the Commonwealth Government in Australia..
That bright parts on motorbuses keep asserting themselves, and that the men who like them do not want paint there.
That, with the temperature at 80, a refusal to do. "One Day's Work" with a fellmonger was not taken amiss by those concerned.
That 300 lb. per sq. in. is a common delivery pressure from an oil well, and that the dissolved hydrocarbons amount to quite a, lot of gas at the surface.
That motorcars imported into this country are sometimes so badly packed that when the packing-cases are opened, gallons of water are found inside.
Of more baronetcies and knighthoods for the stage than for the engineering professions, and that it's time more honour waa shown to the great motor industry.
From the "Yorkshire Observer (30th May):— Mafor Fire E.%rines.
Among many similar items, THE COMMERCIAL Moron notes this week that the Gomersal, Cleckheaton, and Liversedge Councils are discussing the joint purchase of a motor fire engine, and that the district councils of Malton and Norton arc endeavouring to make a similar arrangement.