C.M.U.A. 1915 Parades.
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We have received various expressions of opinion concerning the suggestion that the C.M.U.A. might hold only a provincial Parade next year The writer himself, in the course of his speech at the R.A.C. last week, was alone responsible for the suggestion, as he was careful to point out, and that was also made clear subsequently in print. The suggestion was in every sense a good one : it attracted widespread attention in the provincial daily papers, and it tested the strength of the feeling in support of the continuance of London Parades without intermission. Both those intentions underlay the remarks which the Writer made, and he is gratified to find that neither miscarried. The Provinces have now to make good their case for a visit.
There is a considerable volume of evidence that many supporters of the London Parades are keenly desirous to see the series maintained unbroken, and we are naturally pleased, having regard to the close identification of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR with the organization of the parades for the past eight years, to observe this spirit. It proves that competitors of many years standing have been thoroughly well satisfied by the arrangements, and above all by the treatment s hich they have received at the hands of the Parade Conirnittee and Judges. We shall, therefore, look forward to an early announcement of the official intention on the part of the C.M.U.A. again to organize a parade in London, with an intimation that provincial possiblities are reeei, ing attention.
While dealing with the subject of the C.M.U.A. parades, we may take this opportunity again to recall, with due acknowledgments to the originator, that it was Sir John I. Thornycroft, F.R.S., who arranged the first Parade of the kind, on the Thames Embankment, entirely of his own initiative and at his own expense, in the year 1902. Various claims, wholly unsupportable, are advanced in respect of the origination of parses of the kind, are,1 it is meet that honour should be giVen in the right quarter.