One Hears— Of several new motor-haulage ventures.
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That one man's promise is another's premise..
That there's a, very practical limit to efficiency.
A good deal of "hot air" about the M.O.M. tractor.
That rubber-tired tractors are coming on for town use.
Of imminent competition to supply coal-gas equipments.
That Glasgow owners are in many cases converting to gas.
"Will any M.O.M. tractor be finished and at work this year ? "
That pig, both meat and metal, vary greatly in i quality n war-time.
That the Royal Exchange Assdranee now backs the Car and General Insurance.
That Rolls-Royce ambulances are generally told off f6r the most-shattered loads.
That the contraband possibilities of commercial aircraft are likely to be a source, of further anxiety.
That steam is out and doing all the time, with results that sometimes touch 50,000 acres a week.
That Martens are bent on developing American trade with Russia; amongst many other interests. • That Ford go;, forward somehow, even while not afew parts of the " M.O.M." were undergoing redesign.
That while Canada grows half as much timber again as the U.S.A., the States cut ten times more than Canada. • Of an MT., A.S.C., officer who mistook the central portion of the casing of a Leyland back axle 'for the petrol tank.
That the Americans have been turning out the Caterpillars for army purposes, since they've done so well in France. a That the British War Department is now going in energetically for trailing, but that the Huns did so long before the war.
That the "Daily Telegraph" has recognized the commercial value of coal-gas as a present and future fuel or use in motor vehic.le.s.
Of some counties where the performance per agrimotor per month has so. far about equalled the March estimate per a,grimotor per day.
Inquiries as to why some other type of agrimotor could not just as well .have been adopted by the Ministry for quantity ,production.
That the new rates for steam-wagon drivers in London will result in the payment of more than they are, worth to not a few men who only half know their job and do double the usual amount of damage. That not everybody heard "the big bang." That paraffin is under fire control, not gassed.
That any Caterpillar is a pillar of strength just now.
Requests for reprints of all or some of the coal-gas articles.
More trees crashing to the ground, for France and civilization.
That the Picking up of higher motorbus fares in London is nearer.
That it will soon be a year since this journal began to recommend coal-gas.
" Has Ford sold us ? What has Ford sold us Has he given or gotten? "
Of big queues, little queues and no queues for London motorbus passengers.
Of rotary-engine cylinders that are in some way faulty making good dinner gongs.
That Mr. H. E. Blain handled the recent' bus terms with consummate skill and tact. • Of much noise and vehicle-rolling caused by the flat places on L.C.C. tramcar wheels. .
That the number of women taxi-drivers in London will reach double figures Within a month. "
That junior ealesmen will now bemore than before at a discount for the remaining "duration."
That the C.MX.A. has lodged its first list of charsa-banca, and bodies with the agreed -branch of the Ministry of Munitions • That Smith and Sons, Lid.; are very.busy on afterthe-war propaganda, and that we ma Y expectto 'see' more Smith carburetters soon.
That while taxicabs in London do not pay the owners .on the 8d.-a-mile. basis,.the ,drivers as such— as always—make a jolly good thing out of it still.
That whilst owners of private motorcars in France are entitled by law to purchase 60 gallons per month, they in fact are usually only able to obtain 35 gallons per month—inexplicably generous, having regard to restrictions in the U.K.