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—The Following Rumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
"About turn "—and about time.
A wonderful lot that is not true.
"Thank you" from the P. of W.
No more of the magneto menace.
That the alcohol campaign is suspended.
Of an impressment officer as a "chassis snatcher."
That many a so-called concrete example is nearly as hard.
That the German transport has Ghent back from Brussels.
That Mr. H. G. Burford is paying a short visit to the U.S.A.
That the first Kent hops to reach the London market arrived by Foden steamer.
That several prominent tool makers are widely advertising their own vices.
That the rises in the price of horse food are bull points for light-van salesmen.
Of British-Army motor wagons to co-operate with the Indian troops in France.
That some of the prices being paid for impressed lorries are more than generous.
That the War Department is proceeding to impress a certain number of twoetonners.
That the L.G.O.C. coach factory is working day and night making lorry bodies for War Office work.
That the Liverpool Corporation's motor-wagon fleet Will be on the high side of 50 within four months.
Of an order for 250 40 h.p. machines from the French W.O. which is now going through English shops.
That the delivery of goods or of injured men at N m.p.h. is contemplated by certain makers of touring-car chassis.
That it is a little difficult to recognize the Union Jack after it has fluttered bravely behind the chimney of a steam wagon for a week.
That some of the English substitutes for the absent German waiters are as inefficient but much more polite than their predecessors.
That British motor lorries have regularly saved precious time at the Front by going right up to the firing line with supplies of all kinds.
That the Uhlans' system of protecting themselves when meeting our cavalry by design is to ride behind armoured automobiles or motor wagons.
That when it is asserted that an engine has just been overhauled it is as well to be sure that t'oe split pins show signs of having been removed. The big-wheel cry again, Have you got your gun?. "
That much ot our vulcanite has come from Austria.
That Vienna steak has now become steak Muscovitz.
Of a man who is particularly proud of his Pr owodniks.
That the Americans mean to let us pull the chestnuts Out of the fire.
That the salute is as yet a puzzle to many of the new A.S.C. officers and men.
That the W.O. has its eye on steam-wagon impressment for "home defence."
That Col. Crompton thought much about the German Army's first Big Wheeling movement.
That, once we turn them out, we must make it ex ceeding difficult for them to get in again.
That "Money saved at every turn of the wheels" might do good service as an advertisement line.
That the West Kent Main Sewage Board has resolved not to remit in payment for a recently-acquired German lorry.
That at least 14 makers are cheerfully taking all possible risks about the possible notice to stop manufacturing for the War Department.
That men who do not wear badges are often doing more work than those who do, and that it is rather a distinction not to wear a badge just now.
That there is no reason why we should not go back to the well-made artillery wheel if we cannot get steel ones--it is good enough for the guns, anyhow.
That some, at least, of the balance of those L.G.O. discarded bus chassis, would now find a ready market if offered in a, thoroughly overhauled condition.
That the Commercar directors are making up to the wives or other dependents of their men with the Colours the amount of their usual weekly earnings. —0— That motorbuses previously owned by the Northfleet and Gravesend tsarnways undertaking have gone the way of earlier ones from Manchester to Coventry.
That Mr. T. C. Aveling presented the Birminghara recruiting office with a remarkable enlistment thermometer, which day by day reveals the rise in the numbers which Birmingham has enlisted.
That the proportion of motor-vehicle transport to the British Army is, of course, vastly greater than that of the similar equipment of the French, the German, the Russian, or the Austrian forces That the gentleman of Italian extraction who placed his ice-cream cart "unreservedly at the disposal of the Government" has been asked to defer his patriotic offer until a season when it will be less useless to himself.