ONE HEARS Of old wires in new tyres.
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"None left, sir ; you should have ordered it " Nothing about emergency cars for derelict axles.
Of carburetters that are too sensitive to be tickled.
Of an acute shortage of coal in the West of Scotland.
That every empty lorry on the road nheds explaining away.
Inquiries for hiring-lorries from energetic allotmenteers.
That the conmiereial motor is the mercantile fleet of the road.
That a profit is not without oncost in its own balance sheet.
That tram conductresses would prefer to retain male drivers.
That Edinburgh will not get any tram rails for route extensions.
That the amount of soft fruit depends on the care in conveying the hard.
Noises without subsequent news, and is much perturbed in consequence.
That high-priced motors must be very tempting to the Luxury Committee.
That the aeroplanes carrying mails might be as well employed carrying meals.
That as important as the problem of road transport is that of a transport road.
A storm of reasonable protest against the ploughing of ancient British tracks. That one who does not view peace with enthusiasm is the main-roadside cottager.
Of experiments to fire steam wagon boilers with coal-gas carried in containers.
That after the passage of a tractor, a heat-softened tarred road resembles a rack-railway.
That there may be nice with clear views on Russia and Ireland, but they haven't spoket.
That many people short,of gas and electricity have some hopes of making up with paraffin.
That the manufacturer is not too anxious for cordial relationship between rail and road.
That every 'soldier,is realizing that "four years!' would.have been preferable to ' duration."
That the output of soot and cinders from London's steam vehicles is increasing—ask the laundryman.
That numbers of the land girls are scared to death of farm animals, and are little likely to become used to them.
Of German Prisoners' complaints,of the monotony of their life on the land, and of their desire to change it for hard work in their own country.
That there's just the possibility that the Civil Service will, be a differentOthing after the war—it will be so infected with business ideas.
That George W. Wetmore, of Bryan, Ohio, is reported to have produced a special two-cycle, threecylinder, sleeve-valve engine for operation on national gas.
• From a correspondent . at the Front, • that Mechanist-Staff-Sergeant Boultwood's sketch (issue 23rd May) is absolutely it from the " sausages" down to the footprints in the mud.