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Alcohol ?
Non-potable alcohol?
That the curse of coke is clinker.
That co-operative advertising is " off."
That motors are moving mountains—by degrees.
Everywhere—Are you young enough to be roped in?
That the king is becoming quite a. travelled Tanker.
That the Liberty lorry is an exposition of tolerances.
" Use more petrol and serve your country " in the -That to Japan a situation is not necessarily to gloss it over. - . . 0 That time is passing and the alcohol question is pressing. .
That. the British Public are in need of some shock absorbers.
That.the two-incher may be the advertisement-hog of the future.
That farmers would sooner work themselves than be controlled.
And the survivor is he who heeds—the approaching W,D. five-tonner: , That the loss of front line works means busy times for cable factories.
That garages keep to the highways because they prefer the buy-ways.
That London still seems to get about in spite of the withdrawal of taxis.
That arsenate of lead is a sure cure for caterpillars, but that that's not the Holt tale.
That the efficient engineer does not accept horsepower as a matter-of-course power.
That "soft soap" is an unorthodox but efficacious lubricant for some wheels of industry.
That China has at last decided to build roadways between towns and the railway stations. That the 5-ton steamer which fetched 22000 at West Thurrock was a Foden.
That the officials cannot lack sense of humour who offer refuse-sorting ttovoluntary national workers.
That the gas-producer vehicle for which Mr. Frank Morriss is responsible is about to show what it can do.
That it would need„,a stevedore to stow some' of the mixed loads which pooled transport would produce.
That if the Government has any convictions adverse to alcohol-production schemes, we should be told of them. • However, that the Government has so little 'ground for opposing alcohol production that a move marsoon be made. _ That the Paper Controller. (23, Buckingham Gate, London, S.W.) would like to be told of all 'instances of waste of paper. Well That there arc not enough As, Ds, Ms, or .Ws in the alphabet for a successful rhyming competition—from the " Extractor's " point of view. _ That the Germans were more successful in throttling our preservecFvegetable industry than they were in subduing the magneto business.
That a Leyland lorry knocked over by -a train was put upon its four wheels and went off blithely, but that the railway truck was a sad sight.
That the output of the Ford factory is now " only " 1500 cars per day, having been cut down 50 per cent., as the plant is heavily at work on submarine chasers.
That gearboxes are not; strange to say, constructed so as Successfully to resist strains set up when the reverse gear is engaged while the vehicle travelling forward That it is claimed for the old Bates Steel Mule that it could gives the knock out to its offspring, the concessionnaires being prepared to back it to better any performance the new one could make.
That the scarcity of labour is so pronounced that the proprietor of a weekly motoring journal now dons .an apron and cleans his own office winclows, which. quitenaturally raises the possibility of a future for char-men.