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That Ford can afford it.
• -0--That good welding carries numbers..
Of important insurance developments pending.
. That Spring is here this year with a late spring.
That the leading makers are going a-depot-hunting, • That motorbus wheels may have to be smaller • in London.
There's a better market ahead for steel scrap than is usually realized.
"Go nap on cushion tires for motorbuses two years hence, or sooner."
, Of sfeel wheels badly divergent from professed standards of tolerance.
Of short lives and a huge mortality amongst cheap lamps for W.D. lorries.
That "motor spirit" remains comprehensive, and now with legal sanction.
That ability to get rid of input of beat units is only one criterion of a good radiator. • 0— That the industry after the peace will arrange its Own .A,.B and C grades and groups.
• That one true union of .fuels has for a long time been made by the United Induction Pipe Co.
That one has to be prepared both for nothing and everything nowadays, and not merely for the proverbial anything.
That space on the rim between twin tires is the latest desideratum, but that unanimity has yet to be reach-616as to detail.
That the second cheque, to square the Comforts Fund, will exceed £100 and make more than £1000 passed on as a balance.'
That the coming annual contact of the German navy with the British will be the last, but that a Baltic game is due first.
Many intimations of intention to remit monthly in future to Col. W. K. Tarver, HOD. Sec. of the A.S.C. Central Comforts Fund. " • That thousands of motorcar owners have saved from 60 to 100 gallons of petrol each over the past six months for uSe during the next six.
• That several experimenters are testing coal-gas enrichment alongside the induction pipe as a means of obtaining full power on the new fuel in ordinary petrol engines.
That the C.M.U.A. has taken up the defence of a User of steam wagons in Weston-super-Mare who has a 21750 claim against him for alleged extraordinarytraffic damage.
That if the Petrol Control Committee is buried soon after the peace the consumption of motor spirit in the U.K. will at once jump to the rate of 240,000,000 gallons per annum. Of no more Deuts.ctlands.
Much clearing of decks and desks.
Of still more Generals for the Front.
-That Mr. Rees Jeffreys' paper was a fine one.
That the motorbus weight -and see to it will take time. • That intensive production is the mother of dumping.
That it cannot be as easy as it once was to write " One Hears."
That the stress Nitherto attendant upon agrimotor delivery is easing.
That. a lot more parts might • be made of 'shelldiscard steel than are.
Of team work ahead for the industry, but that there will be DO steam team.
Of excess-profits upheavals of deposit accounts, and even of seine uproot:11-1gs.
That the editorial Use of " ane side of the paper only" broke down on economy lines.
That the . Union jack; of the flags -of all the belligerents, alone displays the Cross.
That it's nearly—if not quite—timehigher motorbus fares were Picked up in London. o That there's an awakening as wea as a Wakefield in the running of engines on paraffin.
That whilst there is a...1.40dge in the.plugtrade, Freemasonry in it has not yet been adopted.
That 90 gallons of petrol R day takes some finding for a loaned chain-track tractor on ploughing.
That New York practice has now gone well ahead of that in London-in the matter of motorbus chassis.
That "The • Motor" _urges "-cheap fuel and moderate taxes" as the motorist's ' necessary programme in due course if not at once.
That it has been the weather as much as anything else that has so far cut the ground from underthe Government's motor-ploughing scheme.
That those people who Were loudest in their sereams for the establishment of new Government Departments have been the first to lament their adequate housing. .
That the mere substitution of aluminium pistons for the usual ones of cast iron in one standard petrol. engine adds about 65 per cent, to both the maximum r.p.m. and the power.
That the Guy (Wolverhampton) design of tippingbody. with a central vertical partition, to allow a fourtonner to make two separate deliveries of two tons each, is an accepted if simple device for.,strying time in coal; lime or stone distribution.