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The following Rumours, of which the Press Burrau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
Of fashionable chassis. Much torque at the I.A.E.
Of much slacking without sacking.
The other fellow's hooter hardly ever.
That aluminium gets heavier as it gets dearer. That it's almost a case of tauntin' the A.S.C., That. the 1916 char-asbancs season will be a good ne.
That the C.C. Fund's Overseas Purchases scheme is well launched.
That those who believe that naval construction is standing still deserve to.
That Mr. Henry Fowler Will play with edged tools at the I.M.E. on the 18th inst.
Of Fords still flooding the country, but that that is not the reason the Ark returned.
That, in spite of new arrangements, the M.T. Department has bought well on the whole—in England at any rate.
That Dennis or Leyland motor fire-engines for sonic of the A.S.C., M.T., depots Overseas would be a capital investment.
That the cost of repairing some of the damaged lorries in Overseas Government depots is often well over a thousand pounds.
That rubber-tired vehicles are not suitable on haulage contracts which necessitate running over hot plates in steel and other factories.
That invitations to meetings of societies and institutions in town are now almost always accompanied by an intimation as to the state of the moon.
That it must be annoying for Rowntrees of York to have to use a War Department type of motor lorry, and that no doubt they have "conscientious objections."
That the latest s!-ary of a certain American light car, which shall be nameless, is that a squirrel is given away with each one "to run after it and pick up the nuts."
That the Government should have commandeered a dozen of the best men in the industry to run the depot side of the A.S.C., M.T., when the results would have been very different from what they are now in certain instances. Of " some " paper purchasing.
"The member for Chorley." Why not?
Of more tramway cravings and quaverings.
That the L.G.F. heavy motor tome keeps growing.
-0 That char-k-bancs owners are sorry Easter falls late.
That Mr. Charles Thompson will not make a thirteenth.
That contracts for petrol over 1917 will take some fixing next fall.
That the Fund continues to find itself, as well as new units dependent on it.
That one reason why the live load pays is because it loads and unloads 'itself.
That the new roll of service for voluntary Comfort workers is useful in many ways.
That when road taxes come, the yield mast not be allowed to exceed the total cost of maintenance.
That the Lancashire Motor and Engineering Co. has an eyeopener for the aeroplane-engine constructor.
That many a start up has been rendered possible by immersing the exhausted battery in hot water for five minutes.
That one newspaper a day, and Tim COMMERNAT, MOTOR each week, is the real way for readers to keep down pulp imports.
Of one motorbus owner in the provinces who from no ineorne six years ago has 'stepped already into five figures per annum.
That one of this country's oldestrnakers of heavy motors now has £250,000 cash in hand against "excess profits" and after-war fighting.
That the 0.T.C, of the M.T. Column of the City of London National Guard wants a few more commercial-motor owners to drill with it each Tuesday and Thursday.
That private chauffeurs who think themselves too grand to convey "the laundry" in their employers' cars these war times should be told what our soldiers think of them.
That what the Brighton Town Council dabs not want to come out is the terms of the understanding under which the ratepayers were indemnified against taking over the electrobuses.