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That " One Hearn " has already won hear-hears !
That Ernest Esdaile and Cargill Gentry are the same person, but that it doesn't matter.
That the R.A.C. Secretary likes chief marshal's job, that he does his work spAndidly, and that he " looks the part."
That Mr. Arthur Paterson was much disappointed at his inability to be present upon the occasion of Saturday's several functions.
That the C.M.U.A. will be asked to hold its 1911 meet and parade on Whit-Monday, in direct competition with the customary horse-van parade, but not at Regent's Park.
That the interest of Sir George Gibb, Chairman of the Road Board, who responded to the toast of "The Visitors" and spent three hours at the Parade, is of happy augury for a quid pro quo in respect of that 11d. a gallon.
That the winning, for the year 1910, of TiE COMMERCIAL MoTait Cup by one of his company's teams has been a source of much gratification to Mr. H. W. Wigan. the managing director a the Eastern Motor Wagon Co., Ltd. and that the handsome silver trophy now occupies a good place in the City office (24, Coleman Street, E.C.) of this busy motor contractor.
That the scheme of the luncheon and speeches which preceded the Parade was admirable, that the cuisine and service at the Waldorf Hotel are excellent, and that a recherche live. coursemeal, two formal toasts and three special toasts have never before been completed so comfortably and smoothly within a total period, from sitting down to rising, of one hour and 17 minutes.
That the presence. at the luncheon and the Parade. of Captain the Hon. William Charles Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Master of the Stables in the King's Household, whose inclusion in the list of new C.V.O.s was to be observed amongst last Friday's birthday honours, was not without its significance, curl that it will not be long before much of the personal luggage of Royalty and their guests is conveyed by mutorvan.
That the little boys in uniform who inhabit the City and South London tube 'booking office in the tunnel between the two Bank stations, when they are quite tired of reading or of ramping in the office, suddenly swoop out and clip anyone's ticket of which they can get hold, that these youths are an unnecessary nuisance, as there is a grown-up ticket-clipper in each direction a hundred yards from their play-room, and that it is not things like this that induce one to " travel in comfort " by tube. That one of the most successful garages of the L.G.O.C. is that superintended by an ex-horse-bus driver.
That Mr. Percy Frost-Smith, the head of Tilling's motor department, was in a great hurry for his luncheon on Wednesday of last week.
That the Northumberland County Territorial Association's experiment with motor-vehicles for its transport is to be initiated with two secondhand Wolseleys.
That the brothers Spurrier are not at all surprised that the Central Co.'s Leyland motorbuses were able to do more than hold their own against the Generals on the Kingsway route.
That our " Twenty Points for London Taxicab Users " (1d. at. any bookstall) have been purchased by archbishops and judges, arid that they are also much appreciated by actors and actresses.
That several family parties realize that the C.M.U.A. is not moribund, interested prophecies in that direction notwithstanding, that particular insincerities hereanent have proved awkward and highly inconvenient, That a, cheery driver, who was not a prize-winner at Saturday's Parade, had hung a roughly-scrawled notice on the smoke-box of his steam wagon, and that it bore the following inscription: " First Prize, 1 lb. of Tea."
That the " ugly duckling" of the motor world, which, to quote from the text of a certain R.A.O. paper in 1908, has been the commercial motor, will shortly become, in spite of the gross mixing of metaphor, the goose that lays the golden eggs
That Mr. A. E. Meaden, who, some three years ago, went out to the Mafay State Railways to take charge of a fleet of Milnes-Daimler motorbuses, is now back in England—he was previously with the Motor Omnibus Construction Co., Ltd., and before that with the Wolseley Co.
That, to a North-Country taxi-driver, who ostentatiously insisted upon smoking while carrying passengers, and who boldly claimed that he had the Home Secretary's permission to do so, the owner of the cab, when sacking the man, said : " You'll perhaps do well in future to remember that the Home Secretary doesn't pay you 1" That when the proprietor of a certain fleet of motorcabs gave orders for the star wheels which drive the taximeters, to be sealed in position, one driver complainingly ejaculated" There goes our last chance of earning a decent living," and that that proprietor fully expects his drivers' next move will he to keep spare road-wheels—with RO worms fitted—stowed away somewhere handy outside the garage.