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The following Rumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
Of the coming of the N.A.V.C.
Of wireless wheels for the Air Service.
Of reinforced concrete as a road material.
That goggles should be an Ordnance issue.
That the 1st April issue will not deal with " fuels."
Of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S culling quids for comforts.
That the German motor papers are remarkably thin just now.
That "Major Magneto" is likely to dream some more for us.
In camera of the growing popularity of the dryplate clutch.
Of faked transport photographs in some of the pictorial papers.
That the volunteer armlet " G.R." does not mean German Reserves.
That "Annie Laurie" is not a new make of commercial motor vehicle.
That there are more American components being used than is thought.
That as soon as the Australian transport landed, it notified the Comforts Fund.
That it's unwise to sell motor lorries you haven't got but have only heard about.
With regret of the passing of Oliver Stanton, who, in his later years, was taxicab driving.
From dozens of new people, every week nowadays, who want copies of our Costs Sheets.
That if timber goes up much more, we shall have to send our " Comforts " out in steel plate.
Of "The Medical Advocate" as a new commercialvehicle trade paper—according to the Post Office.
Daily, on the 'phone, of people who airily announce their final decision to purchase a three-tonner at once.
" En wat is prettiger dan in zoo'n klein gemoedelijk wagentje, half weig, half wagen, met a girl in blue naar het temnsveld te tuffen ! "
That the Stock motor plough is being made in large quantities and used extensively for ploughing for potato cultivation in Germany.
That Garrett's, of Leiston, lost a bigger proportion of their men, who were volunteers, in August than almost any other factory in the country.
That Mr. G. M. Junner, of the staff of this journal, who went to the Front as a private on the first day of the war, has now been given his commission. That the snow came back. That horse costs are soaring. That ropes of tow both are and do.
Of patents diminishing nowadays.
That it is likely to be Sir George Gibb.
Of more fine saves by motor fire-engines. Of a shortage in Britain of hay and turnips.
That heavy-motor leaders now look even heavier.
That Mr. H. Howard Humphreys is now M.Inst.C.E.
That tramrails in London are .getting worse and worse.
That there are new kinds of delight near the Dardanelles.
That the girl they left behind has been promoted to the van.
That Manchester taxicab-owners want the shillinga-mile basis.
Of both clianges and progress in the Tilling-Stevens organization.
That some railway motorbuses are being dismantled and lorry bodies fitted.
That armoured motorcars in the midst of ordinary traffic serve the cause of recruiting.
That the U.S.A. will not go so far as to sacrifice business with any nations that can take delivery and pay.
Of pronounced Russian successes, largely due to motor transport, but of few who find them pronounceable.
That nearly all the business men of the country are now to be met in the numerous Volunteer Training Corps.
That the old Pioneer Scott-Stirling double-deckers, once of Crieklewood and since of Constantinople, may yet again have British (trivets.
That those 8000 motor wagons from America for Germany were more of a myth than the 20 transports their conveyance by sea would have required.
That several Brighton-Worthing area motorbus concerns have amalgamated, including the United, and that Mr. W. Flexman French is the new chairman.
That the Kaiser's transfer of his sea fleet to Davy Jones, Esq., a well-known neutral, is now virtually complete, and that no protest from Great 'Britain is expected.
That road costs are not often stated fairly, and that Alderman Aspen of the Lancashire C.C. is a poor statistician if he thinks that road repairs near Ulverston really cost 32 times the standard.