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Of a mocomo live.
Of agrimotor adimony.
• Of more aluminium wonders. That Germany's a most Kruppt nation. That insurance is not all honey at preeent.
That avoidable waste should not be tolerated.
That things are a bit easier now in the machine-tool world.
That works changes often cost much more than the estimates, That Clement-Talbots ought to be Al at Lloyds nowadays; That it's the stairs that take toll of women busconductors.
That there are some 400 steam-ploughing sets in the country.
Sound agrimotor sense from Mr. John Allen, if a bit on the steamy side.
That more steel and less aluminium is a growing chassis-construction rule.
That the nationalization of :canals is not expected by many people to cut much ice—this winter.
That the best width of furrow for England is 9 ins., compared with 12 ins. or 14.ins..for Canada and the
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An interesting enquiry as to the brilliancy of a lamp which may be carried by a pedestrian in our darkened streets, .
That Austin's are further ahead in their operations _ on the agrimotor side than any other incoming British ' maker.
That a, new motor service in Senegal reduces the journey between Dakar and Keyes from one of 20 to one of four deers.
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That removals may be yea'd oi nay'd by local cammittees of the Furniture Removers and -Warehousemen's Association.
That the roads in Skye are so bad that even motoring on snow is appreciated there because the gaps in the surface no longer gape.
That agrimotor owners will do well to gauge the value of Parliamentary promises of petrol by the measure which reaches them.
That a. good idea of the Loan may be obtained from the fact that an average forty-acre field of wheat will yield 700,000,000 grains of corn—at any rate, within a dozen or so That home tires keep turning.
That America is last in at last.
Of smaller and smaller steersmen.
Of acetylene interests being welded.
Of a demand for Dews anti-rattlers.
That the price of platinum is flattening.
That the Food Dictator has his eye on the Zoo.
That no Mr. Tilling has joined Mr. Edge's staff That, there is a new demand in Germany for shockabsorbers.
That still more matters in Lanca,shire are of concern to Preston.
That "after the peace" is vouched by Haig as correct language.
About the bad state of stretches of the London and Birmingham road.
• That the industry means to speed the plough—not forgetting the cultivator, which likes speed better.
• That the spokes of the wheels on many unsprung U.S.A. agrimotors break when haulage is undertaken on the road.
That the progressive increase of population in and around Bournemouth will lead to road-motor developments for both good.s and passengers.
• That the inability of the railway companies to provide box-ears has at last brought the war home to the farmers of the Middle West in America.
That owners who are willing to let poster-space on their vans or chars-a-banes should write to Lawrence's Advertising Office, 1, Arundel Street, W.C., and that there's money for it.
Of an Irish farmer who considers that the claim of economy for agrinnotors because they "do not eat anything when not working" is balanced by the fact that horses "eat only when not working."
Nursery Rhymes for Present Times.—No. 2.
Sing a Song of Safety, keep an open eye, More than twenty motorcars are often rushing by. When the road is opened and traffic all dispersed, You may cross, but until then think of Safety First.
A car was in the roadway—driver in a hurry. A boy ran off the footpath, he was in such a flurry, ' He didn't think of Safety First—forgot it, I suppose-And underneath the car he went, and loll came his toes I Do not jump out into the roadway regardless of the traffic. The kerb is pat there for your safety.