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That Petrograd provides Parliamentarians with puzzling problems.
That all talk of rapidity without safety is vapidity.
That the soundest advice is -to "keep on keeping on."
Thal petrol is selling bonds, but bonds will not buy petrel.
That the Woolwich chassis never matured—and never will now. • That whilst the supplies of petrol are smaller they are certainly smellier.
That, where rare ' metals come alongside straw, ressi»iism grows apace.
Of a new outbreak of the popular ditty, "Oh! What Yappy land is England.".
That post-war model designs suggest a strong tendency to a return to plain bearings.
That a Tank started a new service to Bord Streetfrom Trafalgar Square a fortnight ago.
That it is difficult to imagine any vehicle more outside the Motor Car Acts than a Tank.
That the " Complacineptitude" that Lord Headley complains of is a result of " Standofficialdomination."
That the Associated Coal Consumers made considerable experiments with removable bodies in 1913.
That the judges on the Scottish farm motor trials are not likely to bepopular among the caterpillars and other creeping things.
That there is no sign of the chain giving way to the live axle on steam wagons at any rate, whatever happens with petrol lorries.
• Of an inspecting officer who waxed wrath over the running streams of oil on some turret lathes and threatened to report this wasteful consumption, , 0 • That the Government is insisting on the observance of the limits for road-wheel_steel hands as settled recently by the Engineering Standards Committee. ".
That the catalysis of naphthalene is one way of producing benzene, although it is a process which cannot he carried out over the kitchen range with comfort That we have all got so used to discomforts these days that the cry for efficient splashguards is never heard, and that none of the patterns boomed a few years ago can nowadays he found.
That it was really remarkable that a busy,police sergeant did not summon the driver of the. end Tank for exceeding the 8-ton axle Weight hiflit, on alternatively because he had not an unobstructed view of the road.
" Of a suggestion for an advertisement The Turk, when his plana had mis-cued. With utter fatigue was imbued; But he ran miles and miles, In the smartest of styles, When we'd fed him on Allenby's Food. "Same to you."
Of turf-cutting by tractor.
That a terminal cannot.be.cutoll.
That Lutonia, a are no longer men of straw.
That high pressures are not to be trifled with.
That noise is not without it value in road-safety.
. That the Steamer's funnel is always in the driver's eye.
That output will always find its own level--in.peace time. .
That. there's still a good turnover in starting handles.
Whispers' of motor slip-" coaches "—strictly limited.
That solids are as free of gravel rash as of pneumonia.
That many " craft" will be " suck ron our roads this winter.
That the statutory guarantee would do just as well —and save paper.
That " agrirootor" makes up in descriptiveness what it lackskin euphony.
That the M.T. are being asked not tolnake mincemeat of Tommy's pudding.
• • That whoever gives ' us naphthalene engines, Rhondda will supply acetylene drivers. .
That the best judges of irivers are the breakdown gang, but their judgment is always reserved.
That it would be interesting tohear Col. Crompton, the erstwhile big-wheel enthusiast, on the Caterpillar.
That as Jerusalem "has long lice'n the magnetic pole of the world's reverence," it naturally is now the centre of an "army tour."