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That some old horse buses are still earning £13 per week for their owners.
That a particular well-known rubber-tired steam wagon has been timed to travel at the rate of 2.3 m.p.h.
That " The Automobile " (New York) ought to be much obliged to us for the sketches in our drivers' columns, but that it doesn't say so at the moment.
That, according to London cab law, two children under ten years of age count as one person, yet it is a moot point as to whether a baby in arms is an " extra."
That, to quote an old saying in polite form, there is a consonant of a difference between the Editor's second Christian name and the surname of the splashguard exponent.
That a certain Milties-Daimler motorbus is running in London with a performance yield of over 11 miles to the gallon of petrol, and that numbers of others are doing eight.
That the initial letters of approved types of commercial motors are now fairly on the way to make up an alphabet on their own, and that some of the letters are duplicated already.
That "The Extractor " is not on his holidays yet, but that the business claims upon his time during the past week have been so great that he has been unable to pen his accustomed notes for the " Out and Home" page for the present issue.
That the force of our arguments in our Editorial of the 24th September, 1908, in which we bid "Good-bye to the steam fire engine," is quickly being driven home to advocates of old-fashioned horse-drawn plant. [See pages 396 and 397].
That readers who do not remember that we wrote an Editorial entitled " The Unadvertised Motorbus " in our issue of the let April, 1909, and that our friendly criticism of the new L.G.O.C. timetable appeared on the 16th of last month, are reminded of those facts. That there will be " Wigs on the green " when the irrepressible taxicabs at last challenge Dublin's obsolete side cars.
That, after all, a statue will not be erected to the memory of Mr. J. B. Dunlop, unless it be in his native village of Dreghern, in Ayrshire.
That certain of the Eastbourne motorbus services do not run sufficiently regularly to meet the desires of some of the
residents in that borough.
That Kingston and Surbiton residents are much annoyed by the noise which is being made by many of the cars owned by the London United Tramways * * That the Editor is enjoying the sun and air at Bournemouth, hut that he still thinks the prospects for aeroplanepantech nicans and similar craft are distinctly gloomy.
That other leading British makers might sell rights for the U.S.A. if they cared to set about it the right way, because English models are favoured on the commercial side.
That., although it is stated that the first taximeters to be passed for London service were devoid of moans for the registration of " extras," we have ,)'et to learn who employed such
instruments.
That the taximeters on the bath-chairs at the Japan-British Exhibition register only by time and not by distance, and that no proposals for the fitting of speed alarms have yet been made with regard to them.
That vanadium, the material which now plays such an important part in the manufacture of certain grades of highduty steel, was discovered nearly 80 years ago, and that its price 20 years ago was 90 soveseigns per pound. [See pages
387 and 388.]
That the L.C.C., last week, spent several hours in a discussion as to which class of traffic was responsible for the dangerous congestion at the Elephant and Castle, and that a subsequent census showed that of 10,000 vehicles which passed The Elephant" on one day, nearly 2,000 were tramcars.