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The following Rumours, of which the Press Bur au has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
"Not all is cold that shivers."
That Saturday is the last Derby day.
That the Tirpitz plans have gone ter bits.
"Have you joined in B Section, Army Reserve ? "
That motor haulage tells, and the C.1‘el.U.A. for it.
That some mess-room profits are well maintained.
That Germany still expects to be buoyed up America.
That "post no bills" has of late assumed a double significance.
That last Thursday's programme at the R.A.C. was voted r-arc-y.
That there is to be a new road from Ballachulish to Kindoehleven.
That any old empty truck is a welcome sight on the railways just now.
That the W.D. list is of unprecedented amplitude and defies measurement.
Of 12 Rolls-Royces behind a Napier hearse at a recent all-motor funeral.
That it's time export trade in commercial motors was properly sanctioned.
Of hospital nurses near London taking turns as ilotor-anibulance drivers.
That results from shepherds and cowmen again predominate at the Smithfield.
That Lord Montagu leaves for India to-day, having completed his motor purchases.
That the list of principal supporters of the Fund has by no means stopped growing.
That Mr. Jesse Ellis will account for not a few at the Maidstone concert on the 18th.
That the Fund wants all that's ready, both in cash and kind, during the next fortnight.
That what the Kaiser said to Francis Joseph was soon known in London, but not widely.
That motorbus services are standing change-oflabour troubles better than tramcar services.
That tramway-system breakdowns and delays are teaching new localities to long for motorbuses. That it is not true.
Enough of the Comforts Fund.
That ours is the motor-haul age. That there may be a Coke Press.
That the patriotic spirit is now gaining a hold. That 52nd Company enjoyed itself at Guildford.
in That it's not yet good-bye to aluminium, as well as good-bye to gold.
That the new Leyland water-tube can expand or contract in every direction.
• That Sauser phis are matl,i in Switzerland and &Ilex carburetters in Paris.
That there's a lot more waiting at Woking for live passengers than's necessary.
That the C.C. Fund has just purchased a quarter of a million bachelor's buttons.
That it is by no means easy to settle the name for a new commercial-motor company.
That in Germany they are pinching rubber rings sent to British soldiers as part of game sets.
That it's warmer at nights in some trenches during the winter than it is in some W.D. lorries.
Of certain family jars in the industry, but not of the kind that can he used to store excess profits.
That Christmas delivery pressure will be such this year as to need until early January to relieve it. • That there's nothing rusty about the Ruston. pressed-steel wheels—no rivets on rim, it gives them. vim.
That the C.M.C.A. is already helping members who are on its waiting list for discharged or time-expired A.S.C., M.T., drivers. .
That there's plenty of room for more. takers of raw cotton at 30s. per ton, between Liverpool and cotton mills in east Lancashire.
That the first Ford agrimotor is on its way to this country, and will soon be demonstrating here, but that it is not being shipped by the "Oscar II."
That the general abstraction of benzole from town gas is now officially admitted, and that the calorific in place of the candle-power standard hereafter -will free 80,000,000 gallons a year of new fuel for use in internal-combustion engines