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"Get some flags ready."
Of another official shuffle.
Of a surfeit of inspection.
Of new Allies wanting supplies. Of fields laid out for Zeppelins.
That mica will soon be cheaper.
That American preparedness is not talk.
That it's not nice to be committee-ridden.
That they're still making sops for soldiers.
That the hotel vote is now wholly pro motor.
That worn-down heels look poorly with spurs.
Of warming up engines on ordinary town gas.
That a lion recently put a motor lorry to flight in East Africa.
That war-worn Army lorries are being sold already —and cars, too.
That a char-a-bancs body on a steam chassis gets through even Chester.
That when chars-1-bancs are run to a time schedule it often regularises them.
That the Russian inspectors of motor vehicles have quite a way of their own.
That the new impressments to aid Russia have caused much inconvenience.
That big output and big sales can alone, yet jointly, save British industries after the war.
• —0-- That the Government might have impressedthe chars-k-bancs, and that it may do so yet.
That it would have been a sorrier harvest in some parts of the country, but for the soldiers.
That the swell from which some men in uniform are suffering will not end as well as they wish.
That Lieut.-Col. Donohue is well on the way round. Salaries, Egypt, and East Africa, following his promotion.
That the Bishops have been grumbling. because their petrol is insufficient for their services and visitations. That petrol is not yet enfiladed.
" Young works—go to Nottingham."
That there's nowhere to fall but off.
That there's much too much to read.
Of much reseating by resorting to Peters.
That as soon as the war is over there are to be super roads.
That not all coke on sale in Lancashire is either graded or gradely.
That the C.M.U.A. is busy negotiating with Government Departments.
That complete relief by recourse to either electricity or steam is too much to expect.
That the percentage of steam wagons with rubber tires is getting nearer and nearer to safety.
That as munition and lorry orders may cease at short notice it's as well to keep in the civilian eye as well.
That one of the great blunders of the Petrol Control Committee was to restrict supplies for Government-lorry factories.
That not a few manufacturers had been wondering why photos. of their vehicles had been more in evidence since mid-July.
That new buyers and users generally gauge the standing of any manufacturer or trader in part by his relative advertisement space.
That more approved types built out would have hastened output more than any new standard lorry by appropriation plus piecing.
That the Board of Customs and Excise has ordered its local surveyors to cancel, or correct to 3d., the old petrol-rebate forms with lid. printed on them.
That 120 enemy sul4marines have been "accounted for," and that only the German Admiralty knows how many others have had to abide by their own losses.
That Albion engines and vehicles will in future enjoy a wider popularity with French buyers, there now being no thought of perfidy on the use of the word.
is threatened often does better than the broken tank to a fire-brigade station when a Zeppelin raid That the motorist who takes his depleted petrol pitcher did at the welL 0 That people who are foseed against their wills to revert to the use of trains are taught by bitter experience that the, road-motor is clearly the better mode of conveyance or travelling. • 321