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Of many ideas for suitably compressing coal-gas.
"What beautiful beastly weather we're having, aren't we " That now is the time to order non-skids, or you won't get them.
That tyre bursts should be prohibited in these days of bomb frights.
That air-raid refugees have fouled the air of the tubes for a long while ahead.
That if you have to compress gas by foot power, it will be easier to set out and walk.
Of a one-time cobbler as a metropolitan munitions inspector whose luties didn't last.
That it's not a comfortable thing to live at the other end of the trajectory of an anti-aircraft gun.
That the gas-bag should be regarded as a useful auxiliary to and not solely as a substitute for petrol.
That after advertising their coal-gas holders in this journal, the first thing Robin Hood's had to do was to enlarge the letter box.
That Mr. Pedersen, of the Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., is off on a long business jaunt to Paris, Madrid and Barcelona.
That taximeter lights of ruby glass should not be permitted in darkened streets, as they are very liable to be mistaken for tail lights by other drivers.
That Mr. Calliathenes Selfridge wrote last week intelligently of gas-bags, and that presumably the Selfridge van fleet will be so fitted at an early date. That on the whole the coachbui/ding trade is driving busy.
That the Germans are now making tracks—chain tracks.
That " gastatics" is the latest addition to the motoring vernacular.
That many Government and high police 'officials were at the demonstration.
That the Ministry is standardizing the sparking plugs for all mechanical transport.
That maximum prices may be fixed for petrol, kerosene and other petroleum products.
That the Ministry of Munitions do not regard magas as coming within the category of a petrol substitute.
That the installation of coal-gas on the Bristol Tramway and Carriage Co.'s buses is deserving of high praise.
That the exact whereabouts of the mobile anti-aircraft batteries are invariably a puzzling factor to the Hun airmen. • ' That the arrangements made in Bristol for the filling. of the gas bags must save a lot of time in comparison with replenishing with petrol.
That the A.A. and M.U. may have asked for trouble by demanding an official assurance that coal-gas may be used on motorcars without restriction.
That some-co-operators think of using the gas that flows at quarterly meetings .as a substitute Jrpetrol. Its calorific value should be great—but we doubt its force.