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That Mr. H. Lyon Thomson is now an ail(Tinan of the City of Westminster.
That one new maker thinks of calling his product the " best result " motorvan.
That a name which trips off the tongue does a lot more to sell a good motorvan than do init:als.
That the Paris shareholders of the L.G.O.C. held a meeting in the French capital on Monday last.
That only 140,000 men out of a total of 609,000 in railway employ joined the great strike last August.
That the Underground publicity people will have. tactfully to withdraw the " Our Road is our own " poster, which is distinctly rude to the motorbus.
That the L.C.C. has received a written request trom the Board of Trade for its observations On the R.I.A. Memorial about disregard of tramcar bylaws.
That Clayton's of Huddersfield make many thousands of " foggers "—automatic devices for the placing in position of detonators on railway lines during foggy weather.
That the employees at the Argyll works, Alexandria, have again given practical evidence of their sympathy with the district hospitals by subscribing a sum in excess of £200.
That some county councils pay the:r madmen at the rate of only 31c1. per hour, and that not a few of these old pensioners are so decrepit that they cannot handle a rammer for patching work.
That the Central Committee for Road Slatisties, which is the only continuing evidence of the London Road Congress of 1909, has changed its name to the Central Committee on Roads and Road Traffic.
That money and members are coming in well for the 1913 International Road Congress.
That heavy motors will not get much of a show in the speeches at Manchester next Thursday evening.
That. a cartoon which we published in December, 1910, has just been reproduced in an Austrian paper.
That mail vans in many parts of the country areconsistently overloaded, to the detriment of the contractors.
That one of the Leeds trolleybuses, which type is licensed to carry 26 passengers, has, on several occasions, actually carried 77.
That there is a lamentable lack of understanding of the first principles of carburetter adjustment among drivers of commercial vehicles.
That some people forget that the Thornyeroft front-driven steam van and the Leyland steam van were on the road long before the end of 1897.
That so many of E. W. Rudd's steam meat-wagons are constantly using the East India Dock Road that it is contemplated to change the name to E. India. Dock Ruddway.
That last month's strike of the G.N.R. carmen in London, in spite of the fact that it lasted only three days, served to give a distinct fillip to the prospects a motor transport with that great line.
That an enterprising man in Portland, Oregon, has established a sort of motor laundry, and that any wagon or van can be run in, quickly renovated externally—in fact, given the equivalent of a " wash and brush up "—at an inclusive charge, and that usfl.s in the district value the benefit of having their vehicles looking smart most of the time.