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" Well, this is' a wonderful show ! " That Lyon's bags took the biscuit.
That mixed staffs of both sexes make unavoidably for inefficiency and slackness.
That it's mighty hard to get boiler plates nowadays owing to shipbuilding demands.
That the " Daily Mail" ought to have had a car running on gas at the -demonstration.
Of " Veno's Lightning Cough Creator for Huns "his reward of 21000 to the first British aviator who drops a bomb on Berlin. '
That the number-of private cars at the gas demonstration showed the need for a, pradtical alternative to petrol. That if they abandon one tram on the line during an air raid it .stops the-whole service, but if it's a bus the rest can carry on.
That several of the marshals at the gas demonstration had previously had appropriate experience in Gallipoli and in France.
" I haven't seen a single one of 'em as is a practical job "—from a misanthrope who got no further than Thornyeroft's front gate.
, That there's occasional unnecessary flirtation in certain. women-driven Government cars, and that chaperons are regrettably necessary in these cases.
"Gas under, compression. Yes, that is the right idea," but it was always from the man who thinks it best to wait for the developed article, and. in living for the future, wastes the present. That much afforestation has already been undertaken in this country.
, That 15 people rushed to and fell on the thoughtless driver who arrived smoking a cigarette, with hundreds of cubio feet ef.gas over his head. That the new petrol licences are in tear-out coupon form, Whispers of Royal interest in the coal-gas movement.
That most of the present-day petrol waste iii in the Services.
That the Coal Controller's transport scheme is working very usefully.
That in some towns all the ironmongers sell petrol, whilst in others it's the chemists.
Ns better to be convinced that coal-gas is right than merely to be cajoled into using it.
That Shell Wharf may be an appropriate place for a live shell, but it is not a convenient one.
That the local food committees have all been asked to try to introduce local co-operative delivery.
That the City Hall tower in Manchester could be, put in the Manchester mammoth gasometer and leave a healthy space to spare. , That at a recent round-up of " joy-riders " in one of the parks, half-a-dozen most-distinguished, people were netted—and relealed with a warning.
That certain Government Departments, would be glad to consult a representative body of agricultural motor makers, but that no such body yet exists.
Opinions to the effect that the British Commercial Gas Association, in its desire not to overstate its case, under estimated the chances of coal-gas in its recent report.