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"Watch Leyland.'
"Buy Underground A shares."
"Don't condemn the chain drive."
That more motors are turning on gas.
That new sales at home must come first.
That too many associations spoil decision.
That it is to be both "get back and get on" after t he war.
That commercial engineers have their eyes On agencies.
Of the "taxi terror," and that it's only by. day— fortunately.
Of coal delivery from compartmented wagons by hopper and shoot.
That the railway companies are in a cleft stick about many bridges.
That no impediment is being placed in the .way of importers of agrimotors.
That none were more 'surprised than the agents to hear 1917 was to be "The agent's year."
That the Westminster Volunteers are apparently too proud to help to save life in London by whitening the kerbs.
That hundreds of the oldest soldiers in France have been transferred to Brig.-General Ma,ybury's • road battalions.
• That 10 or more agencies-have already been arranged by several individual manufacturers of large commercial motors.
Of hot coke for coke motors.
Thatthe use of gas helps get in the brass.
That the best way of curing a skid is never to have (Inc.
That it. is not so easy to burn wheat in bulk as might be supposed.
That anti aircraft insurance has by no means slumped in the South.
That Coan can't get any aluminium to cast his clean souvenirs at present.
Of a driver who flips his driving licence to his braces so as not to forget it.
Laments concerning broken whisky bottles, but that the lost contents may be replaced. . • .
Of a lay contemporary whose editor thinks a tractor with a trailer behind it is a road train.
That the important pcint about the Trossachs Road is that it is not to be barred to Motor traffic. . • That it's as Well not to cry about new import re
strictions until the country .really is hurt by them. •
• That the curtailment. of petrol is -.forcing many country residents' to . add to the overcrowding of London hotels.
That in 1916, apai t from British Government borrowing and subscriptions in Loncton to the second French loan, only 9i millions of capital was. raise4:1mother purposes, and only 61., millions by -Colonial Governments.