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Dry your coke.
That Mr. W. J. Iden has made another move.
That springs to absorb side shocks are needed on some present-day rolling stock.
That the problem of the leaky petrol can is an ever-increasing -.worry to many a retailer.
That the French authorities carry their caterpillars instead of driving them to where they want to use them.
Of a grinder, sent to a works by an Employment Bureau, who was ultimately found to have been carded "Grinder, organ."
That his name is Bassom and not Busson—though it might quite well have been—and that he's a remarkably efficient official.
• Of a. bet recently made and taken in Lincolnshire that a Fowler steam ploughing set would beat the efforts of two independent tractors, and that in this case the Fowler won.
That that renowned health resort and sanatorium St. Helens, Lancs., is very badly concerned over the smoke from present-day steam wagons, and that presumably Widnes and Wigan will be also on the look out. That No. 16 is the experimental route.
That certain well-known agrimotor types have an awkward way of standing on their hind legs.
That the Americans aren't at all keen on the suggestion for .national trade marks—unless the quality of exports is standardized.
That F. Myers is " Fordson tractor repreantative in Holland County, England," and that it I's to be hoped he likes his new address.
That a number of agrimotor types are already earning a regrettable reputation for their need of frequent and extensive repairs.
That to prevent platinum being used for other than i automobile or aircraft purposes n U.S.A. and particularly by jewellers, it is to be taxed pro' hibitively in such cases.
That the first journeys of the Austrian Government's air-mail services ended in disaster, as the first machine and its load caught fire and the whole service was forthwith suspended.
That the production of suits of armour for the oldtime men-at-arms would have been ,an interesting problem nowadays with quantity-production methods available, and that there would have been some...boom in press work.