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That the agrail is not a bird. .
That you can't judge a rabbit by its squeak.
That Geddes doesn't like being called an octopus.
That the winner of the Leyland guinea didn't care a Button.
That it was quite breezy down Vauxhall way that morning.
That quite a lot of people think the A.A. has got a temperature.
That you never find a, user who is an enthusiast for both petrol and steam.
That we, at any rate, are to have the right to a say about those " agrails."
That there is no real use nowadays for either millionaires or Weary Willies.
That the biggest commercial-motor user in the world is the British Government.
That it is hard to eradicate the idea that industrial alcohol is merely a cheap whisky.
That after the Cippenham, Chepstow and aerodrome scandals, a 25,000,000 matter may crop np.
That someone else has got a "One Hears" page, but with due acknowledgments to our flattered selves.
That it is not intended to put the Kiel Canal under Sir Eric's new little Department--at any rate at present.
That His Majesty, when presenting the 11.13.E., didn't ask Windsor if by any chance he was a distant relation.
That present exorbitant prices in Paris should teach us gratitude towards our food controllers, in spite of some mistakes.
That there's no lack of offers to make British wares known in the East—to the Pathan or the heathen Chinee indiscriminately.
That " Bolshevik" is merely Russian for "majority," and that in all the circumstances the minority must be rather sorry.
At the present time almost anything motor on offer could be sold in India—the trouble is there isn't anything and won't be for months.
That no one can consume his own smoke while this coal coupon business is about, and that even Wigan is a little smoky for the moment.
That it would be nice to be in the electric loco. business now' and that it's wonderful what foresight that English Electric Co. amalgamation showed.
That if you are going to sell lorries in the Indian market, you should rate their load-carrying capacity at 25 per cent. below what they can saiely carry, as the' will usually be overloaded to that extent at least. Of a Looker who is also a far seer.
That tyres are still solid in spite of the split.
That there's many a lorry getting into civvies.
That Sir Eric Geddes has thrown over Agrail.
Of four cabinet ministers at the C.M.U.A. lunch. That the statutory guarantee remains—but hush! That a curly worm drive is an illusion only optically. That the key to road freedom is not a railway key. Sighs for a little motor competition, a la margarine.
Of two grades of petrol at present—bad and worse, Of a glut of welders who are not necessarily welldoers.
That some lorries have come to stay ; we prefer tl a others.
That Heaven knows where they will dump the Bosch I That some of the prices being asked are figures of speechlessness.
That, in the North Country, fur coats are called munition overalls.
That it will be a race between the week and the week-end in fu,ture.
That, on some bus routes, the fares seem to change with the conductor.
That if Stanley is for buses and Geddes for trams —then comes the tug-of-war!
That there is a Bank where wild thyme goes—and well the bus companies know it.
That there are now 4,279 farm tractors in use in. Ohio, as against 2,341 in the year 1917.
That there is nothing to tell London bus passengers when they are being earned by compressed gas.
That the Underground might learn a useful lesson from its own poster, which reads : "The more trains, the more seats."
That Sir Albert H. Stanley, M.P., president of the Board of Trade has promised to be present at the C.M.U.A. lunch.
That the owners of commercial land-fleets deserve as much consideration from the Government as the merchant ship owners.
That taxi drivers must have been expending more tuppences lately, to judge by the noticeable improvement in their manners.
That, while steel wheels are good for most overseas service, it is usually very difficult to get them repaired in the event of mishap, whereas there is generally a competent wheelwright about who can tackle wooden ones.