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Noisier noises from the trams.
Many congratulations to S• ir Arthur Du Cros, Bart., M. P.
That the war is no excuse \f or ignoring the cutout regulations.
That many char-it-bancs owners will now be solely dependent on paraffin.
That Canadian-made tires filled the Goodyear windows in Kingsway on Empire Day.
That the Editor is busy answering Tribunal queries, and that the Comforts Fund is henefitting accordingly.
That the Road Board's 23 experimental stretches of different materials on the main road near Sidcup are now swept by women.
That even ears with old ladies in them are sometimes labelled "War materials" in these days of excuses for pleasure cars. .
That whistling for taxicabs can be checked where a by-law exists prohibiting the use after warning of a "noisy instrument" in the streets. • That this journal's estimates in August, 1914, of big demands from Russia for road motors, look quite insignificant against the huge real figures.
That the New-Year headline of this journal in January last (1914: 1915: 1916: 1917: 1918: 191111) was as good a forecast of the way of war as any.
That it pays some A.S.C., M.T., men to buy British money' in France from British soldiers and French restaurateurs, and that such money-changing brings in big profits. "Good after one, Sir " "No Bank Holiday" cheers at the Front.
That it soon won't matter what they charge for petrol.
That 'the nucleus staffs for civilians are often make-do lots.
That the wise owner has ordered at least one twofuel carburetter.
That a woman 'was driving a taxicab in Holland Park Avenue, W., one day last week That the Comforts Fund for 1915-1916 account topped its 1914-1915 total in 7i months.
That the Petrol Committee has not yet stopped the use of petrol as a destructive agent for rose-tree blight.
That it is to be presumed all who use motor-bicycles , and sidecars are pleasure motoring," but that some of them do not look like it.
That factories are being put up in Switzerland for the sole purpose of blackmailing one or other of the belligerents into buying them.
That the Armstrong-Whitworth road train with Thomas eleatro-meehanical transmission is thought much of by Sir Percyh F. Girouard.
That " Eyes " in "The Times" states it is "like asking the wolf if he can account for the disappearance of the sheep" to ask the A.S.C., M.P., if they can suggest any means of petrol economy.