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That Birmingham's new index mark is " That the centipede will both outelimb and outerawl the caterpillar.
That a motorbus service from Waterloo along Holborn is badly wanted.
Of a petrol or oil tractor under construction with si ft. driving wheels.
That the National Steam Car Co. means to push its way into all possible traffic-return lists.
That the 10 directors of the L.G.O.C. are to divide £7000 a year between them as remuneration.
That Liverpool cotton men are scheming a big plan to use tractors for dock-to-warehouse haulage.
That ale and stout in bottle are being increasingly delivered by motor lorry throughout Lancashire.
That it is not a good plan to go on serving out new vehicles to a driver who suffers from side-slip mania,.
That a Dublin Traffic Act of 1875 has been invoked to hamper motorvan traffic on the banks of the Liffey.
That " The Rialto," in discussing F.I.A.T. cab finance, expresses the view that 4c1 added to 8d. is 39 per cent.
That insurance companies, which seldom take interest in crusts, hope the Road Board will not forget corner and curve improvements_ That the Frenchmen who recently acquired General Motorcab debentures at £105 have been dubbed baby-holding philanthropists.
That drivers whose wagons have trailers behind them do not often make the error of unloading the wagon before they try to draw the trailer under the crane.
That there were no " Extras " turns at the cabdrivers' sports last Monday, and that Mr. Pollard didn't judge the tire-fitting competition because he wasn't there after all.
That the latest plan to evade the Insurance Act is to obtain in writing the consent of employees to waive all claims under it in consideration of there being no deductions from their wages.
That some local councillors imagine that motorbuses come under the 1861, 1865, and 1898 Locomotives Acts, and that the Motor Car Acts of 1896 and 1903 are unknown to these busybodies.
That the unconcerned driving of a Commer char-abanes on Saturday last into the yard of the Plume and Feathers Hotel at Minehead was the acme of skilfulness and was a matter of a millimetre clearance.
That too many dust-carts are seen about in too many London boroughs, and in too many provincial cities, during the ordinary hours of traffic, and that the example of Westminster City Council, within whose area everything unsightly is out of the way, per motorvan, before 10 a.m., might with great advantage be copied. The Leyland one-tonner called a dandy.
That jujitsu methods are not always part of the equipment of truck-sales organizations.
That the hold array of steam wagons at the Preston Show surprised more than a few petrolites.
That there are so many motorbuses at some poiuts in London that it's a puzzle already to find the tramcars.
That the winter of their discontent will overtake some road-carrying companies about January—if not sooner.
That nearly the whole of the L.C.C. tramway officials held "watching briefs " in the House of Lords on Wednesday last week.
More laments from agricultural-show finance committees, and that the Royal is held to have set a very bad example this year.
Of a belief in Lancashire that the master-carter and team owner who fails to take up commercial motors will be wiped out before long.
That the 5 per cent, advance in petrol lorry and van prices will be followed by a lo per cent. rise in the price of agrimotors for export.
That the cost for solid-rubber tires on 3i-ton steam wagons is now averaging about lid. per mile run, and that it comes out less in London.
That a few of the big Lancashire carriers are trying a hand on live-load work, and that not all the small men like the new policy of development.
That an increase in third-party and other insurance rates for vehicular risks will synchronize with the advent of L.C.C. coupled and trailer cars.
That the splashguards which are regularly found on some steam wagons are never outside the wheels, and that it's a case of charity beginning at home and stopping there.
That Mr. Peaty, one of the L.G.O. traffic advisers, p_ersonally supervised the new St. Albans service from Hendon on Bank Holiday, a-nd that he did it in a frock coat and straw hat.
That Mr. Alphabet Fell wore a worried look when Lord Montagu was proposing his amendment to the " trailer-tram Bill" in the Lords, but that this changed to a broad grin as he left the House.
That Mr. John Bull Prosser, of Marshalls' oil-tractor department, knows how to tell the story in both convincing and entertaining style. and that with him it is all the outcome of solid experience that tells.
That owners who use chassis sometimes for goods and sometimes for passengers only secure the maximum patronage when they have shock-absorbers or ordinary spiral springs fitted at the back of the plate springs.
That 35 tons of beer and 3+, tons of whisky were taken from Manchester to the Royal Lancashire Show by H. Viney and Co., Ltd., of Preston, which company enjoys an enviable reputation for doing its jobs well and to time.