One Hears— That there has not been such a hustle at the Crystal Palace for years.
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That makers are asking themselves how long the present good times will last.
That Mr. Alfred F. Bird will entertain at the It.A.C. on the night of the 22nd inst.
That horse-tramways are to be laid in Jerusalem, and that it is time they went to Jericho too.
That there is less money in leather than there used to be, but that rubber promises to keep running.
That it is better to give away a dozen or more reflex lights to obstinate proprietors of dark carts than to pay for one smash.
That the R.A.S.E. show at Norwich will provide opportunity for the display of several remarkable agricultural-motor novelties.
That Mr. Eric F. Boult should arrive home from Australia, for his Coronation-year visit to the old country, about the end of April.
That it fell to the lot of the Legal Committee to be the first R. A.C. " sub " to hold a meeting in the new Club-house, and that on the afternoon of the 1st inst.
That many of the horses in tradesmen's delivery carts know the rounds as well as their drivers do, but that nobody has yet found the same display of intelligence from a 12-horse engine.
That the authorities in various Continental cities, with those of Brussels leading as befits their badlypaved streets, intend to make the use of rubber tires compulsory upon all commercial motors.
That a gentleman who spent £10,000 in trying to perfect a taximeter is now driving a taxicab, that he now makes the best of a had job, and that it is better than selling bootlaces like Mr. BMW.
That the travelling public would be amazed at the bullying and undiscriminating methods of many insurance-company and claims-department doctors, were the Press to let a little daylight into them.
That Id. a gallon saved on the purchase of motor spirit in bulk will often equal, in less than six months, the whole capital expended on an Uxbridge storage set of electrically-weld:id tanks and their connections.
That it is now possible to inspect new specifications at the Patent Office without undue delays, owing to a. new regulation requesting visitors not to be selfish, and that TITE COMMERCIAL MOTOR had a letter in before the change.
That the native drivers of the Government motorvans in Southern Nigeria are noted amongst the white officials for their reckless driving, and that the only speed limit on the roads in the interior is that imposed by the mechanism.
That many steam-wagon men will be agreeably surprised when they read counsel's opinion that it is not a criminal offence to help themselves to roadside water, and that, although sometimes constituting a technical act of trespass, tender of, say, ad. or ed. is usually a full discharge of all legally-enforceable obligation to the owner of private water. That the total attendances at the-North of England Show aggregated 50,000.
That the head of the publicity department of the L.G.O.C. is out to catch a mackerel.
That two old horse-cab drivers, who were being, trained to drive motorca,bs by a large London company, succumbed to influenza last week.
That a paragraph under " One Hears" was wrong, last week, and that there were, then, still two unpatented methods of operating sleeve valves.
That vanboy Nathan, who stopped the runaway motorbus at Hyde Park Corner last Saturday week,. has not been a loser through his pluck and presence. of mind.
That direct-supply mineral water companies find motors the thing, partly because the greater frequency of delivery keeps down the amount of capital that is necessarily tied up* syphons.
That more donations to the general fund of theC.M.U.A. Parade are coming along, and that manufacturers who have previously given support of that kind realize the worth of the results in added esteem amongst drivers.
That motor rollers are doing good work on roadconstruction undertakings in the West-African interior, and that one that was imported spent some time, owing to a mishap, on the bed of the (wear:4, before starting in regular service.
That horse-kingdom cranks are keeping jolly quiet,. now that it has dawned upon them that horse taxation is not necessarily impossible, but that motorists when their voting ascendancy comes will really demand' equity only, and will not be revengeful.
That numbers of people who were forced into thetubes a few years ago by the very deficiencies of motorbuses have now returned permanently to surface travel, where the air is bright and fresh and where reverberations do not assault the tympanum.
That there are few signatures that are more difficult to decipher than chat of Mr. J. W. Critchett, the General Manager of the Metropolitan Fare Register Co., Ltd.--unless it be that of A. L. C. Fell, of L.C.C. Tramways fame and motorbus-menagerie memory. • That Mr_ Aubrey Llewellyn Coventry Fell, thelength of whose name is understood to be a constant source of consolation to Mr. Sohn Christopher Mitchell, is beginning to fear that an L, C.C. tramcar and not an L.G.O. motorbus will require space in theBritish Museum.
That one or two cab owners still allow metal shoes' without fibre wearing faces to be used in the brake equipment of their vehicles, but that nobody knows. exactly why there is a single instance of adherence to an obsolete method, and to one which cannot fail to. cause unpleasant jars in traffic for the much-enduring hirer.
That at a recent meeting of the Lord's Day Observance Society, at which, amongst a great variety of other objections, it was urged that all shops supplying motorists' and cyclists' requisites should be closed on Sundays, one of the gentlemen supporting the chair was Lord Kinnaird—a name that is not unknown on the Board of the General Motor Cab Co., Ltd.