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Of blueprints and misprints.
Of too much action without -warning. More -and more W.D. cries for ,spares.
, That it's as well a certain canteen ,can't talk.
That the tire World is being further Americanited.
The cuckoo still, less altered in its note this year than usual.
That the latest joke at many works is the exemption schedule.
Some instances of theory and practice being farther apart than usual.
That Halifax may motorbus services. soon rely on coal-gas for local That more R.F.C. training camps at ho officers are badly wanted for me.
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Of unprecedented -a' -ar-time economy in the welding of broken Morse drills.
Of empty oil barrels used as trestles, and that it's not the cheapest way to do it.
That Mr. Gerald Biss's permanent address is now Court Lodge, Ware, Hertfordshire.
That " The Sunday Evening Telegram" of the 10th inst. contained some amazing "Hints to Conductors."
That the Gas Light and Coke Co. is now turning out something like 40,000,000 cubic ft. of coal-gas a day.
That this journal's Campaign Comforts Fund's cases frequently carry 14 days rations, as well as kit, in Mesopotamia.
That summer time this year may prove to save '100,000 tons of coal, reckoning heating, lighting and power together.
Thata striking indication of the inctedsed ciThrt necessary for cultivating wet land is apparent from the added fuel consumption of agrimotors.
g. Of a marked indisposition on the part of new drivers no make notes on their report-sheets about the bebaviour of the engines and vehicles under their care.
That whilst accommodation for compressed gas, to enable point to point runs of 30 miles, weighs only half a ton, steamers frequently carry one ton of fuel Only.
That fire-insurance rates may soon have to go up generally, following the consequences of a bad claims experience in the cotton industry this year—and others.
Little or nothing about the unseen and unacknowledged foundations of many an alleged "specially contributed" article (in the daily Press) on coal-gas fuel for motor vehicles. Of fortunes carried daily by motor.
That the land wanted that thunder-shower.
That Clarkson's coke-fired chassis is doing well. Of a " there and back without turning" agrirnotor.
That the fuel cost per mile of the acro-bus will be sky-high.
That Germany's risk of hitting a friend is dwindling.
Of involuntary aquatic sports in parts of London last Saturday.
That American officers With one "pip" are by no means subalterns.
That flexible gas-holders will counteract the inflexibility of the P.C.C.
That it looks as though every paper will soon be urging the merits of coal-gas.
That pilfering from gas-lamps will shortly figure on the charge sheets in the courts.
That the "forts of London" are so successfully camouflaged that only a German can find them.
That few realize the many minor ways in which direct fuel economy is possible when using coal-gas.
That the FrenchArials next month will afford grand opportunities to makers of small, self-contained machines like the Wyles.
That halfpenny fares in and on London motorbuses are at last about togo and the twopenny fare-scale to become more general following the great increases of wages to drivers, conductors and garage hands.