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• Prayers.
That the big guns will get on.
Of wind-screen excuses everywhere. That all tires are better .than the others.
That the C.C. Fund goes on doing both well and good..
Tha't there now seems to be plenty of good timber about.
• That there is too much Departmental competition for real efficiency.
That Russia is not yet all out, and that Germany will get her "all out."
That the standard Standard squeeze is more evident In, the States than here.
That when a motor char-banes overturns it usually throws more than a shadow.
The praise from Mesopotamia for supplies from the Campaign Comforts Fund.
That Hyatt Roller Bearings are being fitted in not a few American farm tractors.
That co-operative delivery is no longer academic, the war having subdued much local feeling.
That certain would-be private users are to have little more than the smell of other people's petrol.
That many a maker who once upon a time welcomed odd orders now sniffs at anything under a thousand.
That excess war profits are causing much trade strain and in some cases an approach to loss of reason. • That Mr. A. W. Gattie's scheme for a central goods clearing-house in London would not get rid of the coal and mineral depots.
That the Government's new standard lorry will have to be proved as a whole, notwithstanding the fact that niost of its units have been.
Of a rush to make statutory declarations to the effect that chassis which it is sought to import are to be used solely for commercial purposes.
That military-type chain-track tractors have consumptions in respect of petrol fully equal to those of their pre-insect prototypes in respect of rose leaves.
That, according to the Editor of "The Morning Post," to attempt to be consistent during the present cataclysm is comparable to attempting to wear a top hat in a typhoon.
That the total cost of operation of some of the bestmana.ged tramway undertakings in Great Britain, inclusive of interest and sinking fund, will keep above 11.5d. per ear-mile.
That some of the Thornycroft bodies, for subsidytype wagons, to the end that the covered-in tops may be easily removed if necessary, are commendable examples of motor body-building. Of weird rubber deals.
One motorvan, three tradesmen.
Two fuels, but three joint users.
Of Mountains of cars at Fulham.
Of more move about to be got on at Salonica.
That the reflex light of the petrol shortage is to be a boom in bicycling.
That the two-fuel carburetter is but a parallel to the two-fuel fire-box.
That there is no appeal from the decisions of the Petrol Control 'Committee.
That it's as well to drive slowly through Kingston market-place, but still better to avoid it.
That thousands of private-car owners have been allotted only one-eighth of the petrol they wanted.
That unless the ls.-a-mile basis for London taxicabs is shortly approved by Sir. Edward Henry there will not be 500 taxis an the streets of London 18 months hence.
That there's no practical reason why the baker, the grocer and the wine merchant should not deliver by one motorvan, 9r the chemist, the stationer and tho ironmonger by another.