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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.
That a half-eann'd driver can't " Let's see ; who are you With now l" Of more orders from Russia offering.
That a good foreman is waste's foeman.
That the fiat to sell lorries has gene forth.
That joint-ownership equals co-partnership.
That the war-used-lorry bogey wants laying. That some 1908 designs are now to be revised.
That not many motor-agents' sons go to Eton. Of " caterpillars " being desirable for farmers.
That Lawson finance promises revelations again.
That Germany still likes bribery and Krupption.
That influenza has put down more than one man.
That second-hand prices are " all over the shop."
That it takes more than sirup in catch a wily Moth. That some "One hears " are spoilt in the editing.
Of public-service licences changing hands at 2200 a time.
That the Holt Co. is making tracks for the British market.
Of the coming of the " ticactioneer "—from U. S,.\., c•f course.
That few people in the industry are more English than French.
Of a probable new bus service between Portsmouth and Chichester.
That the old Eastbourne pier pavilion is at present a garage far inland.
That some. Eton taxi-drivers have been eating the boys' Money by Cheating.
That the people who really did the starring are sinking mighty small just now.
That the Surrey 0.0. has already roped in £191 for axle-weight excesses at Spa Bottom.
That Mr. H. C. Hull, who is some golfer, may "putt" the Inter-Freight Exchange on its feet.
That Barry Cole's back gate opens to a golf-course, but that he only plays " The Wearing of the Green" on his bagpipes.
That the chairman of Bayleys, Ltd., is proud of son Hadrian's D.S.O. and son Victor's appointment, as Commissioner of Munitions for India. Of cracks in Germany, but not cranks.
" Where can we get• our lorry repaired'?"
That the Colonel didn't know what " C.M." meant.
That motor lorries are clearing away and a way at Salonika.
Inquiries as to where the W. and G. delivery vans have all got to.
Of war-profit •week-end parties in several Eastern States of America.
That the Transport Section of the R.F.C. has a preference for Leylands.
Of serious trouble over the Belgian M.T. maintenance and repair arrangements.
That steam wagons should now be fitted with longer lengths of hose-pipe for watering.
That sonic people still think that Ferodo might be adapted as a tire for heavy motors.
That Tillings hope their half-loaf at Brighton will soon become a whole right to loaf there.
That if an alien enemy in England denies On verbal challenge that he is such the police are powerless. • That the ubiquitous petrol motor is becoming as essential to the Navy as it already is to the _Army.
That Waring's original Leylands, Nos. 36 and 62, are still on postal service in France and in wonderful condition.
That American truck agents and British secondhand merchants are often jealous of each other's opportunism.
That Col. Holden's E.C.B., is none the less a merited honour because it is of the civil and not the military class.
That the price of gasoline has risen to 70 per cent. since last summer in New York, and that it now costs 24 cents a gallon.
That the ,G.P.O. has reluctantly but of necessity increased the mileage subsidy for the mails by motor in Sutherlandshire.
That a man is a-departmental manager in the U.S.A. if he only has charge of the stamps and tho stationery in a district office. • • That when road laws and taxes are finally settled. which will not be this year, heavy motoring will be On an exact basis for rapid deVelopthent.
Of an interesting collision case, in which an L.G.O. bus and a car belonging to a well-known house in the trade were involved, and that the models to be used have been made to our instructions. • Of a big shipment of U.S.A. barbed wire, at Liverpool, which was put in order at an expenditure of 29 a ton by British manufacturers who had been originally passed over for the contract by the W.D.