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Of Zeppelin re-preparations. That paraffin keeps hardening.
That traffic sense means more than penCe.
That the L.G.O.C. is well on with its paraffincarburetter tests.
, That the rate-cutter on the road is usually a deathdealer to his own survival.
Undercut — overload—breakdown—disappear—no mourners, except the shareholder.
That if a cathedral can be protected so can any other building of the same dimensions.
Of a big user who tried to buy 2000 ions of paraffin last week and couldn't get it at once.
That there are now some 120 trailer-tramcars in use on the L.C,C. system in South London.
• That packing parts small is a war-time development in the U.S.A. just now, and no crazy one.
That when shell orders cease at steam-wagon works output can only proceed on a war-condition scale.
That when the chassis homeward fly it will be a ease of 'ware war wear where the weary works were war-worn.
That British, Russian, French, Dutch and. Belgian holdings in Shell spirit jointly amount to more than 90 per cent.
That the two-fuel earburetter of war-time service will ipso facto become the multi-fuel carburetter of after the war.
That a new lorry is to be called. the " Both ways," and that it's to be hoped it doesn't intend to face about all the time.
That motorbus owners are now thankful that there were such things as horsed omnibuses and carriers' carts before motorbuses.
That the belated feat of the " Deutschland" merely serves to remind one that the bulk of German trade is in very low water.
That Lancashire appears to have bad luck with transport companies which might have done better had they been given a chance.
That some of the consequences of the Kaiser's receding chin, so often and so effectively made up for photographic effect, are now seen.
That Mr. H. E. Blain's prominent connection with the L.G.O.C. motorbus operation is proving a friendly link with tramway interests.
That pa,raffin's price and flash-point allow it to be shipped in barrels by any boat, and that its supply cannot therefore present the same difficulty as that of a fuel which usually comes solo in tank steamers. Of a short life, but a troubled one.
That Ferodo is never ferocious in its action.
That next winter will be a bad one for startingaip.
That it should have been called the Artificial-light Saving Act.
That steam can just now afford to display more than a little dry humour.
That the two-fuel carburetter series promises to exceed 12 examples.
That the loco. boilers with a circulation will now be the ones with a sale.
That the new membership of the C.M.U.A. should be a record this month for any July.
That the Burfords on the Smith carburetter test seemed much at home at Burford Bridge.
That the petrol companies realize what the supply of war carburetters means for them hereafter.
That the petrol intake by most users has been at least the maximum during the past few weeks.
That the heavier average load of commercialvehicle engines will help on the use of paraffin in them.
That so long as motor traffic has not in the end to do more than pay half the road bill of the Kingdom it can do it and win.
That one " masonic " sign for A.S.C., M.T., men after the war will be on gripping to mention "Grove Park, G. and H. Block."
That the demand for calcium carbide after the war will be largely increased by its use as one of the raw materials in the manufacture of a new motor fuel.
That when petrol is costing 28. or more per gallon six months hence, and no contracts can be made, the users who are not two-fuellers will get the worst of it.
That the C.C. Fund's regular monthly gift to aid Prisoners of War in Germany remains at £47 10s.— £37 10s. paid out through the W. 0., and £10 through the R.A.C.
That the old Londonderry steam-wagon works at Seaham Harbour were made a bit older by stray hits when the German submarine raided the spot on the night of the 11th inst. 0 That the attributes of a good paraffin c,arburetter are similar to those of good coffee, excepting the first :—Nair comme k diable, dance comme l'amour, chaud comme l'enfer, fort comme la mort.
That Sunday evening last witnessed a touching memorial service, at Emmanuel Church, "Attercliffe, for the late Mr. Robert Hookham, the Sheffield haulage contractor, who, along with two of his men, was killed near Penistone on the 4th inst. in a, motor wagon accident. c21