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"Phew; it's paraffin."
More engines knocking.
That education is to be Crewed.
That there will soon be anew coal-hole.
That railway general-managers are chuckling.
Of plants to distil the paraffin out of the engine oil.
That the bull must not be allowed to eat the bun.
That Binks's anti-pinkers are conscientious protectors.
That it was the air arms that caused the petrol alarms.
That nothing will strengthen petrol so much as its shortage.
That road-bites account for the Caterpillars' fuel appetites.
, That motorcar touring in America will be one afterwar attraction.
That many London taxi-cabbies talk dolefully about their new fuels: That tolerance is only good within limits, in affairs as well as manufacture.
That the war has nearly killed the halfpenny fare, and that wages now will.
That the Petrol Control Committee now finds time to fan—if not to fancy—itself.
That petrol stocks are being accumulated as a result of Governmental control.
That one of the Peace terms might be to keep petrol from Germany for 21 years: That local-authority jealousies are not yet laid concerning the supposed motorbus prey.
That tramcar and motorbus interests promise to be thrown together for self-defence in many areas.
That the L.G.O.C. is now using 33.3 per cent. paraffin and 67.7 per cent. petrol as tar as it can.
That after active hostilities .do cease it will take another eleven months to fix Germany's fate in detail.
That an increasedsale of Chocolat Menier in the U.K. is one consequence of the war for the benefit of France.
That 350 miles of running is enough to bring on lubrication troubles when some paraffin carburetters are used. Of top-speed shelling.
L.C.C.—P.C.C.--I see, see ?
Of need to 'ware fuel stories.
Our" Zeppelins " more often now.
Of more new works for Nottingham.
That Germany begins to see her night.
Of Chinese labourers drifting into Russia.
That there's a bulge on the Bulgar at last.
That the priority struggle continues exacting.
That while there's a moon London's immune.
That the spark, is more forward than the. plug.
That the two "All's" continue to do good business.
That although it's down petrol cannot as a fact be hit.
That the P.C. Committee is now going in for headwork.
That " Tommie" French makes more headway than Esperanto.
That there's room for a few more " Despatches from the Front."
Of some bare-faced acts of trespass under the guise of munitions necessity.
That none of the German ships acquired from Portugal was a tanker.
Of electricity on its metal, steam on its make, and petrol on its percentage.
That numerous laundries have secured extra petrol on hygienic and sanitary grounds.
That Widnes gasworks is one of the latest. to " strip" its gas supply of benzole..
That a kick on a solid tire gives some idea of its resiliency—or want of it—to the kicker.
That whatever effect ,solidoeubber-tired steamers may be alleged to have on some macadamized roads they undoubtedly save damage, noise and wear on paved surfaces.
• That Dr. Charles Carpenter, Pres. Soc. Cham. Ind., thinks more steam-wagon owners should arrange to burn gas-tar pitch mixed with coke, and that it can be done economically.