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There'scrriorc than gas about gas.
That moonlight is the best antiZepptic.
Of more lighting fittings for light vans.
That not all heart troubles put one into C3.
That stocks talk more than money just now.
It's the page advertisement that tells best.
That petrol policy will be twisted a. year hence.
That many Ford owners are to " Make-a-truck."
No noise that matters from steam wagons on rubber.
That some of the greatest inequalities are in war bonuses.
That in Greece it's the light infantry that are the Evyones.
That the " tanks" are now known to be link on link on plates.
That pneumatic tires are now a good market for light-van users.
That the coke-breeze briquettes are 125. 6d. a ton ex works Smethwick.
That the user of Rubberine is eligible as a member of the Light Van Section of the C.M.U. A.
That the considerate motorbus user pays the woman conductor before going to an outeide seat.
—0 That several hasty journalists were unaware of -the period of commercial-motor petrol licences.
Of an inquiry from the Admiralty for a quotation for goods already delivered to the un-official order.
That Barton's gas-holder-fed motor chars-h.-banes at Beeston are locally known as the Zeppelin buses.
Of a certain chassis which, in company with this journal, got three consecutive half-pages of advertisement free.
That electricity-works managers near the east coast never venture away from their home stations unless there's a moon.
That the present liking of gas companies for steam wagons will merely be paralleled when they sell coal gas and benzole to petrol-lorry owners.
That high earnings per mile are now less due to traffic management than in pre-war days, whereas low costs per mile are more to the credit of the engineering side.
That anybody who seeks to have an announcement in the new edition of the C.IVI.TY.A. handbook of ap: proved depots should write forthwith to the Secretary at 83, Pall Mall, S.W.
That the wise owner or intending owner of a battery-equipped vehicle will not fail to study circular No. 40 of the Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., Clifton Junction. Manchester.
That the British Berne takes timber well.
That a Musgrave stove cheats many a grave.
Of increasing use of Edison " automatic" trucks.
That although our nerves aren't jumpy, our freights certainly are.
That there are two meanings for "0.C."—one military, and the other censored.
That it should get harder to pass over the Comforts Fund Appeal as the winter gets harder.
That the commercial motor alone has rendered possible our new-found artillery preponderance.
That the weekly use of this journal's "Spare Part Bureau" has now aided 2075 owners and vendors.
That there is enough profit in some branches of motor haulage to permit cost-keeping to be ignored.
That lightweight trailers should be more used than they are in the present times of delivery stringencies.
That one petrol licence for 40 cars, all in different parts of the country, was rather more than a joke for the owner.
That one of the darkest cathedral cities in this country is at night time crowded with Fords, headlights aglare.
That not every man discharged from the M.T., A.S.C., knows "all about motors," although in not a few cases that is the claim.
That the L.G.O.C. services which have been discarded are those started since the war, all the previous ones being retained.
That while some people can get new machine tools without any difficulty, others find it next door to impossible to secure the necessary permit.
That cyclists who seek to take care of themselves light their own lamps 10 minutes early, and not 10 minutes late, in these days of curtailed motor lights.
—0 That it would be possible to get a number of Irish mechanics over for munition work, if it were not for their fear of possible military service when once they are here.
Of a woman driver who, complaining that her engine was running badly, volunteered the suggestion that she'd heard something drop off, and perhaps it was the magneto."
That the police in some counties—including the "Specials "—are wisely not too severe about the intensity of side-lamps before about 8 p.m., and that their toleration should be emulated.
That between 1912 and 1915 there were 56 applicants to Scotland Yard for drivers' or conductors licences which were refused on the score of mental deficiency, but these are not Government appointments it should be noted.
That Mr. Lloyd George's reference last week to the work of the Chief Naval Constructor, Mr. Tennyson D'Eyncourt, on the " Tanks " might also have stated how much of the design was due to a particular Assistant Director (Temporary) of Construction.