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That the Foden bus is a sprinter.
Of ex-Central buses now in General colours.
That the new Garrett brakes are good ones.
Puzzled inquiries as to what makes the Batiche waggle.
That it's a sad job for the Green roller to be put to stone-breaking.
That a live Mann towed a dead Garrett to its stand in friendly fashion.
That the Darby-Maskell plough is a puzzle to many an agricultural mind.
That MeLarens are firmer than ever in their faith in superheat economy.
Of wide resentment at the nuisance of subsidy inspectors' requirements.
That Taskers' generally lose a tractor for a while at showa and exhibitions.
That Mr. Waller usually manages to do a little sleeper-ploughing at the Royal.
That the big oil-engmed a.grimotor is not nowadays much in evidence in this country.
That the latest Wyles plough does everything but put itself to bed under a tarpaulin.
That much subsidy standard of upkeep is far and away too good for commercial users.
That it is fitting that the Foster and Daimler tractors should be next-door neighbours.
That the Wyles Bros. will have to fit a larger petrol tank, if they take out any more patents.
Of London bus conductors' confusion over European currency tendered by swarms of visitors.
That Sir Gilbert Greenall is by no means impressed with the agrimotor as a thing of beauty.
That the Director-General of Artillery is to organize tractor trials on his own account very soon.
That it was amusing to see the three-ton Foden arrive behind a giant traction engine of the same make.
That it is foolish policy on the part of steam-wagon builders only to fit the best brakes procurable, if 215 extra be paid by the customer.
With deep regret, of a fatal accident on the line last week, to Mr. Hutton, who was in charge of the Birmingham fleet of the L. and N.W.R Co.'s motor department.
That Mr. J. G. Brockbank, sole agent for the Daimler commercial vehicles in Rio de Janeiro, has left that city on the s.s. " Andes,and should arrive home on the 8th of July. That Ferodo is coming back into its own.
That the big wheel will be made a big drum.
That an exhaustive list is not easily exhausted.
That most of the shops in Shrewsbury are originalcake shops.
That motors : horses : : 70: 1 in London West-End streets on Sundays.
That a runaway bullock in Essex was fortuitously headed by a motorvan.
That other inside passengers think fat people shokild pay by size in hot weather.
That the Chief Constable seemed very proud of his war-paint, including his gun.
That marriage parties by motor char-b.-banes are now features at Paris mairies.
That Madagascar's railways are to be abandoned, and road motors used exclusively.
That in the vernacular at Blackpool " sharry " foi char-a-baucs has now replaced " charry."
Of great attention being paid to the design of steamwagon brakes, and that it is not before it was wanted.
That low-lying townships can best afford motor fireengines on account of their contingent value qua floods.
.That there was not much of a vacuum about the winning dressed windows in the Vacuum Oil Co.'s competition.
That it takes a practiced eye to discern the distinguishing features of many tractors and steam wagons noAadays.
That 'a lady visitor, riding through the Royal, thought the rubber-tired steam-wagons were " pretty little things."
That men from Northern Italy make fine steamengine drivers and those from Hungary very bad ones as a rule.
That the " C.M." Welsh, despite the fact that the Editor cannot speak it, was more successful than many people's French.
That the Aveling and Porter new three-ton steamer and the Tasker chain-driven Little Giant arc the novelties at the Royal That Section G. of the British Association in Australia this year will hear a paper on " Petrol Fire Engines" by Prof. Hudson Beare.
That the Show staffs of two well-known steamplant-building firms once again hate added to their accepted reputation for studied incivility.
That a motorchar-h-bancs at sixpence a head would nearly have paid for itself last week between Shrewsbury station and the Show Yard, and that the few available growlers did quite for themselves.