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Surly remarks in Tankland.
Of police traps at the Front.
Motor cues to the potato queues. That more may be heard of likrauia.
Of an effective naval counter to the Zepps.
Of a few more inspectors who are engineers.
That the horses have the worst time in the Army That many of those 2000 agrimotors aren't at work yet.
That spare parts for agrimotors is a current diffit ulty.
Of tractors at the working points without either ploughs or fuel.
That military law is not so gumptionless as some military practice.
• That making a hash at the Front is not so easy as making a hash of it there.
That in the pressure-and-feed regulator for coalgas lies one key to the future.
That not every telegram arrives that a man is told to hold himself in readiness for.
That the German army, expert and merciless in sacking, will end by sacking the Hohenzollerns.
That freight exchanging at owner's risk will not be popular, and that it's not the worst of the "snags."
That the Parsons (Southampton) paraffin carburetter is one of several that will carry on after the war.
That all Chinese property in Germany will be confiscated, or at least kept locked up in a tin trunk until after the •war.
That the actual work done by some agrimotors is so far about equivalent to the scratching by the hens in the neighbourhood.
That "Caterpillars for Farmers" as a title for an article was first used in THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Of the 26th February, 1915.
That against the printed question, Were you born in wedlock?" an M.T., A.S.C. man wrote on the pensions form, "No—in Portsmouth."
That General Smuts says that what the rebellious Boers forgot was that South Africa had lots of cars now and that there weren't any in 1900. Of more Ministry moves, Less than was expected of the paraffin vaporizer. Of a great after-the-peace road-transport scheme.
storms gathering against certain agrimotor scheming.
That the Government is Southampton's prospective owner.
That the new allotments might well be dubbed "tire patches."
That it's time the 0:M.U,A. put up another fight for home-produced fuels.
That the industry is suffering from a fresh attack of inspectoritis of all kinds.
That a, regular service of motorvans now holds the road between Bayonne and Bordeaux.
That some horse-riders since boyhood have even less use for spurs than the M.T., A.S.C.
That more provincial rnotorcab owners are out for war bonuses in order to avoid their own going out.
That if things go on as they are going, the U.S.A. situation will become really serious in another nine or ten months.
That some of the odd corners with which ferocious spade wielders are struggling would have defied the efforts of any agrirootor.
No wonder the war is costing an average of more than six millions a day—the wonder, for some reasons, is why it is not yet up to eight."
That one Press synonym for "agrimotors" is "farm tractors," which is good enough if they happen to be tractors, whereas some of them aren't.
That the Lancs. County Council has approved a road map which deliberately ignores Section 20 of the Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act of last year.