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9th March 1920, Page 3
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That rolling stock gathers mud, but no moss.

That advanced Teutons are here offering magnetos at 25s. and 13 apiece.

(Outside the achine-shop) too much of: "That's near enough."

That it is not always the clever mathematician who is the figure-head.

"Oh, yes! 'tis leap year right enough. Watch the prices jump!

That Helen lopped was Helen stopped. The question is: is Helen dropped'?

The Lenten oblation of the drawing office: "Our afterthoughts and snags make cowards of us all."

That a " K " bus costs about twice as much as the more familiar type.

Also that the L.G.O.C. put 581 additional buses into service last year, their total fleet using roundly 11,000,000 gallons of petrol in the seine period.

Harper Bean! Harper Bean! Harper Bean! Into the market place rolled the nth hundred!

A query as to whether it is likely that a certain section of the community will demand an increase of wages to meet the cost of pressure-fed strawberries now in the market That Sir Wilfred Stokes was the right man to act as chairman of the sub-committee appointed to investigate the problem of the excessive cost of motor fuels.

Of some prospect of bringing the Trust to its • en.ses. Oh, won't we have a dust up— And won't there be a bust-up, When we've sent the Petrol Trust up Sky-high, sky-high! Oh, the fireworks! oh, the cheering ! Oh, the jubiating jeering! When we've scotched their profiteering! My eye! my eye! Much ado, but only about "What is to be."

Of an increasing application of science torindustry and of assistance to the lorry from the lab.

That the Leyland night light is educating all the travellers by northern trains.

That the' Glasgow City Fathers should more thoroughly consider the bus before they burrow underground.

That a bits on the street is worth two tube trains in the imagination.

That there is no truth in the rumour of alorry limousine, nor is an electric cigar lighter included in. the equipment.

That the Halley " Six " is inclined to be lightheaded, but that the aluminium cylinder top which.makes it so is a distinct innovation in heavy vehicle design.

That its producers are hard-headed in the best business sense of the term and that a light-fingered driver can steer it comfortably.

Of rapid recoveries from the mouldera' strike, and of resorts to expensive gunmetal to tide over the delay in malleable iron deliveries.

That Manchester's municipal committee en mechanical traction is moving as rapidly as did automobiles in the days when they were preceded by the man with the " red flag."

Of a rumour to supply a certain Midland non-technical salesman with a Book of Don'ts," number one being: "Don't discourse glibly on cylinder-head gaskets n terms of " gadget " jointing.

That Lord Weir's ideas on the subject of the motor industry are fax from weird, 'but that, in some ways, they are very original.

That his views were well worth hearing at the Royal Scottish Automobile Club dinner the other day, and that the comparative figures he gave of the relative aize of the American trade in comparison with our own should make us sit up and take notice. What do U.S.A.!


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