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Of a new 10-cwt. fast electric van. Of small wheels for big pneumatics.
That. the W.0: staff is using a Trojan.
Of big improvements in certain motor lawn-mowers.
Favourable -comments from a competitor on the new Halliord electrics.
Of another British entrant into the commercial vehicle world.
That there is a big fiddler the small, cheap, but efficient fire pump.
That Cal. Frank Searle sought Chapter Street House in Coventry.
The, statement that the Ford has the wile to start, but the query--has it in deed?
That the R.A.C. splashguard trials told us little or no-more than those held at Camberwell last year.
That still more makers are turning their attention to the production of light, speedy and cheap motor chassis.
Of Autovac yellow and backfire purple as two of the colours in which coachwork is finished at the Motor Show.
And that the salesmen on the stands are wearing socks to match the coachwork.
That spring wheel inventions are not quite .so numerous as formerly—possibly because few have achieved even a fleeting success.
That Daimler and B.S.A. regard Chapter Street House as at the centre of a circle embracing eleven millions of the population of this country.
That if cab fares in Cologne are high we know of a family renting seven-tenths of a huge palatial flat in that city for threepence per week—they pay 1,000 marks a month, the rent fixed by the British authorities some time ago. Of the last close of summer.
" Nice day for a sale, sir: " Of running foul and fowl running.
That many Vulcan lorries went east.
Of the collision and the Exiltadiator. Of a Paris taxicab as a war memorial.
Of General Election and Particular Selection.
Of spits and starts—or cold snaps and sneezes.
Of canary and blue as a London bus decoration.
Of pact and impact—or collusion and collision.
Of The Motor heaviweights—and of paper inflation.
Of much red tape in the matter of motor ambulance . calls.
Of giving 'ern a Show—but not a run for their money.
Of " Heat and Flow" as the song of the therraosiphon.
That the condition of some London cabs is under consideration.
Thai General Election may prove as implacable as General Inver in Napoleonic times.
Of a slogan for some political party :—" A breakfast table and a universal joint."
free As an echo from the Brewers' Exhibition= "The load is but a Guinness stamp. A van's a. van for a' that."