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Of further great. increases in the numbers of large petrol lorries on order for Lancashire, and that this traffic next spring will be a real eye-opener.
Of many additions to regular orders from newsagents, and of numerous fresh subscribers, for THE COMMERCIAL Maxim. —per the Business Department.
That motor vehicles exercise a peculiar fascination upon men on strike but that this interest sometimes takes the form of unwelcome attentions of a deetructiye tendency.
That the officers of the Army Service Corps (London Terri torial Divisions) intend to offer special prizes its connectiun with next year's Whit-Monday parade of commercial motors.
That a. certain learned lady, of Mathematical-Tripcs fame, recently hired a motorcah, at a special rate for a long journey, that the rate quoted was ninepenee per mile, that. on receipt of the account stating the number of miles travelled, she checked the route on an Ordnance map with a measuring instrument, and that, upon disovering a discrepancy of approximately one mile, she challenged the accuracy ef the taximeter and requested a reduction of the charge by ninepence.
That there has been a reversion to the tactics of 1902-1903 by carters, porters, and warehousemen in Liverpool, but that it should prove a harder job to " kill " the motor wagons this time.
That visitors to last month's motorcar Show at Olympia are still wondering if the placards about the U.M.I. goods were the work of the artist who designed the poster for the Grotesques.
That a London steam lorry of unusual design and of chequered career has now been dismantled, that it is to be converted by its owners into a horse-drawn vehicle, and that the horse doesn't often get his 'own back in this way.
That a certain East-Croydon establishment, which is boldly labelled " Garage," is at present largely devoted to the display of penny Christmas toys, and that, evidently, in the intervals of timing engines, etc., the proprietor find's it remunerative to sell air balls.
That, since he is the proprietor of the " Hospital " which has been responsible for the fitting of most of London's motorcabs with weather screens, Mr. Randall is likely to be particularly interested in the prophecy conveyed in this week's cartoon, entitled "A Protected Industry."