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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.
Again—" What about Holland?"
• That one thing that should not be standardized is advertisement.
That it's the self-starter which will help to keep the -woman driver going.
That rates for horse hire are now averaging nearly is. per ton per mile. — That "the officers of the L.C.C." are working ant that "nearly 2s. per superficial yard."
That a prominent commercial-vehicle salesman had a cigarette case presented to him by Herr Bailin on 26th July, 1914.
That in Liverpool each motor wagon brings in 11 tons of refuse daily, compared with 4.08 tons by each one-horse wagon.
That if the export of money to America, in payment inter alma for motor lorries; is forbidden by law, it will upset numerous calculations about profits.
That when many a petrol engine is a year old, from 15 to 20 per cent. of the fuel is forced out past the piston rings and through the crankcase breathers. Of a French-Mercedes,-but why, one does not know.
Of an increasing demand for flora's aeroplane trailers.
Wonderful accounts of a Peugeot French War Department model.
That Underground Income Bonds will pay six per cent. "free of income tax." continue to That the English drivers of French Croix-Rouge vehicles are admirably treated by our Allies.
That if the "Cad." had done no more than is apparent during war time, it would have done well, Of many Britishers in khaki who see the Rhine every • other day—from the right side of the trenches, too.
Of a mountain-road, much used by motor convoys, blown completely away by German long-range artillery.
That 7106 wounded British soldiers reached Boulogne on one occasion in 24 hours—all of them previously conveyed by motor ambulances.
That the L.C.C. pro-tramcar party claims that the ratepayers have got the trams for nothing, but they . are silent as to what it costs to keep them, and also what it may cost to get quit of them.