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"Good-bye to the Gee-oh plough."
That accessibility is a, great Latil claim. That it took £165,000 to buy Mr. Edge out.
That Mr_ Harry Spurrier has been pow-wowing in. America.
That it's time the London Salvage Corps horses were sold.
That Potter and Johnston machine-tool cases make fine fowl-pens.
That the sixth "Show Saturday" dinner takes place next week.
That a competent Traffic Board for London would be a crowning mercy.
That Mr. Arthur Stanley, M.P., is a director of the Channel Ferry Co., Ltd.
That the L.G.O.C. is to get on with its Thomas transmission experiments.
That the number of owner-drivers of taxicabs in London is in excess of a total of 600 at the moment.
That those Barford and Perkins rollers recently shipped to Turkey ought to come in useful for the Bulgarians.
That an inspecting engineer, while examining a modern three-ton lorry at the works, asked "Do you fit a reverse? "
That several more works managers have come down a peg or two since they realized what is done each week at Walthamstow.
That Sir Edgar Speyer has decided to acquire certain electric lighting and power supply companies in and around the L.C.C. administrative area.
That, as at Edinburgh in January, so at Manchester in February, no commercial vehicles may be shown, but that the latter report will prove to be wrong.
That the promoters of the S.M.M.T. banquet heaved a sigh of relief when they found that Mr. Sam Samuel was not, this year entertaining the night before.
That at the "Waring v. Wembley" rifle-shooting match held quite recently, it was the Oxford Street contingent who came off second best, and that war does bring strange reverses.
That the mechanical limitation of speed is by no means so easy a problem as is frequently imagined, and that no authority tried harder to work a scheme out than did Scotland Yard some years ago.
That the Goodrich cinematograph show, at the Royal Palace Hotel, Kensington, whilst showing the way of things from tree to tire, is also a good advertisement and entertainment combined, and that everybody will be seeing it. Of petrol poisoning the partridges. Of a new friction-driven 10-cwt. van.
That Sheppee developments are imminent.
That tire bills are fearsome things in Sutherlandshire.
Of a proposed steam-transport company for Birmingham.
That most of the delegates at the recent West Ham tramway congress arrived by motorbus. • That Scotland Yard had a representative watching the Paris splashguard tests last week-end.
That thanks to the R.T.A. the Staffordshire County Council is about to rebuild two bridges near Stourton.
That the Renard-LatiI front-driven road sweeper throws the mud to the left, and so is suitable for English roads.
Of a keen man who wants an appointment as tire salesman, and of another who wants to represent someone in Paris.
That the best and most scientific way to open a slipper slot on conduit tramways is to use six brawny navvies and a few wedges.
That the increases in Scottish railway rates as from the 1st January next will aid further motorvan sales north of the Tweed.
That the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., is installing a large hydraulic petrol-storage plant at its central depot.
That at one big works all the machined parts have to be pushed through the public streets in wheelbarrows to the erecting shops.
Many congratulations reaching the new L.C.C. Engineer, Mr. G. W. Humphreys, and that he is no relation to Howard of that ilk.
That H.M. Stationery Office's new Commer van one day last week was outside the " C.M." office, but that it was not delivering subsidy specifications.
From Messrs. Hartigan and Forsyth, of Paterson Street Garage, East London, South Africa, that certain advice in TIM COMMERCIAL MOTOR has been much appreciated by them, and that they are finding good evidences of local inquiry.
That M.I.A.E.s are asked to wear their membership badges at Olympia, but that it is not suggested that B.Sc.s should wear their certificates in their hats or that members of the A.A. should advertise that association by tying their badges to their coat tails.
That on Thursday of last week, in New Street, Birmingham, there were two motorvans standing together at the kerb, one bearing a large advertisement for " Poolova " (an egg food) and the other one for "Pavlova" (the celebrated dancer)—both in large letters.