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That the alcohol ghost takes a lot of laying.
That there is no one remedy for the traffic problem. That easy steering is a safeguard against sideslip.
That Terrell Swan is the cause of much "General" enlightenment.
That quite a lot of people have an eye on Cambridge bus services.
That a remarkable new machine tool moulds an engine-case in one hour.
That the exploitation of motorbus services is being conducted on tramway lines.
That .780 spirit does no harm to your engines but -is a bit sluggish in the mornings.
That there's no worse policy than to sell a three-ton lorry to carry four-ton loads.
That chemically there's mighty little difference between light Shell and heavy Shell.
That they are trying the experiment of using up old laminated springs for brake linings.
That no prejudices cease more rapidly than those of the man who first hasn't a motorvan, and then has.
That a driving chain can hardly be called unbeatable, because so many of its parts are punched and stamped.
That large numbers of chars-à-ba-ncs bodies are undergoing renovation, repainting and sevarnishing just now.
That the Renard-Latil commends itself to one prominent engineer as ideal for low-pitched motorbus construction.
That. the L.O.O.C. haying tried innunnsrable lifeguards is to fit up 25 of its buses provisionally with an approved design.
That in many running-down or collision cases juries Pass over the real issues, expert and legal, and find a verdict in the plaintiff's favour.
That wire extensions for light loading or bulky traffic are being fitted by some enterprising carriers
to the sides of their motor wagons.
That applications for membership of the West Riding C.M.U.A. should be addressed to Mr. C. C. Fell, Prudential Buildings, Bradford, Yorks.
That a sense of pablesse oblige is the reason why some county surveyors fit rubber tires to their own road-motor plant, but that it would cost them less on steel tires in certain instances.
That the qualifications for membership of the Noise Committee at Scotland Yard are not of necessity that applicants must have the eye of a hawk, the nose of a vulture, the agility of an aeroplane, and the wisdom of Solomon!'
That the latest profit-sharing scheme is to pay annual bonuses !.o 'employees on the basis of their being. entitled to dividends on 50, 100, 200 or other number of shares in the company, but without any allotment of shares.
That its an obsession with some makers to cut prices in the home area of others.
That the control of the pedestrian will yet come within the range of everyday happenings.
That The :Daily Telegraph " of the 22nd ult. gives the War Office subsidy as " 2100 per annum."
That the Frome tire people have departed from the old D profile in favour of the concave section.
That the use of the motorvan is helping to bring prosperity to many of the smaller country inns.
That many lion-owners just now wish they were owners, but that the remedy is in their own hands.
That the object of the Petrol Substitutes Joint Committee is adequately disclosed by its new name.
That, it will be a pity if a few more British motorvan salesmen do not go over to Rio de Janeiro before long.
That never, in pre-petrol days, since necessity was mother to invention, had demand failed to produce supply.
That non-exhibitors who managed to secure orders at the City Hall, Manchester, last month, possessed elusive properties.
That the new-type Avonside paraffin lorry will be on the Bristol roads in a month or two, and that it will smack of High Wycombe.
That very few motorvan drivers suffer from weak chests, but that the occupation cannot always be recommended as a cure for lung affections.
That whilst people don't hear so much of commercial motors as they did in the old days and says, . some of the vehicles at times make no end of a. splash when running.
That a certain practical journal advises its friends that it. has " Many advertisers who have been in our pages consistently without once going out for more than 33 years."
That France and Germany both tried to bring alcohol into fashion for use in road-motor engines, but that the cost was never better than the equivalent of petrol at 3s. a gallon.
That so many people are so touchy that it may be expedient to substitute the word "notify" for "educate," in relation to steps to acquaint the public of the best way to avoid being touched in the streets.
That a good many chars--banes will bring excursionists to the Cup-Tie Final, and that some enterprising proprietors of the machines will also book sightseeing trips while their original patrons are watching the sport.
That there's no truth whatever in the rumour that the Associated Equipments factory at Waltham stow is to cease its activities, but that its fine plant is again turning out 28 a week ; and that further interesting manufacturing schemes are on the tapis.
That motor-lorry delivery in Manchester, where it can be effected, is so quick from warehouse to warehouse, especially with samples and small lots, that more than one man has to be carried to run up and down the stairs at the consignees' warehouses.