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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 excepiion.
The wedding-bells, at York. Of seven new British models.
That " One Hears" has been vaccinated.
Of more band3 playing, yet more wanted.
That the eight-cylinder lorry will not happen.
Of more rusty deck cargoes of American chassis.
That the L.G.B. Committee is not surveyor-ridden.
That the Shakespeare was on volunteer duty this Whitsun.
That Mr. T. C. Aveling likes his engineering job in the Navy.
That we shall have to do without more Fiats in the Army now.
All is not coal (or coke) that finds its way into some fire-boxes.
Of the naturalization of imported U.S.A. lorries -with German names.
That the lost tramway revenue on Whit-Monday ran into a very large sum.
That the fissure in the Cabinet was largely caused by another at the .Admiralty.
That some lurking private-car drivers catch it hot from their over-age neighbo;iirs.
That the governing idea of the Guy is the limitation of car speed qua engine speed.
That Foden drivers seernytio want mare braces than other men in the A.S.C., MT., at the Front.
• --0— That a corps of gas-fighting chemists is being formed, and that they will use both gas-tricks and gas-trucks.
That there is growing dissatisfaction with the choice of men for the A.S.C., M.T., commissions and the passing over of many better.
That A.S.C., MT., lorries were frequently used to convey munition workers to and from Woolwich Arsenal during the L. C. C. tramcar strike.
From Mr. H. T. Vane, that Mr. A. Norriss (Perry) and Mr. Frederick J. Perry, two brothers with long Napier records, were both in the " Thisitania," and that the latter, who is the Napier buyer, although he broke his collar bone in diving off, was fortunately saved.
That a recent issue (9th May) of the "New York Times" contained a large illustration of a singlecylinder experimental Diesel engine, now in Doxford's Works at Sunderland, with the title, "The new giant German gun with which Dunkirk was shelled," and that this is tall, even for American journalism. That Sir Edgar's pyre will not be yet.
That Blackpool is saving £100 a nionth by the use of its motor sweeper.
Of no L.G.O.C, recruiting from disaffected L.C.C. ranks, and of little in any other direction.
That no more liners will slow down off the Old Head of Kinsale in order to put their number up.
That showmen who had their traction engines impressed in considerable numbers now go by rail.
That German motor lorries have been extensively used for the conveyance of loot on their return j ourneys.
That it took Italy less than six weeks to come in after the " C.2if." announcement that she was "off fence for offensive."
That a public subscription at Stourbridge, in order to purchase a motor fire-engine, *has already realized more than half the required sum.
0 Who Did It?
Someone in the days gone by Once did something. Was it I?
Let it be. I have forgot Whether it was I or not.
—from "The Times" of the 25th May.