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27th September 1917
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That not every"discharged badge" is evidence of active service.

That there are few of us who couldn't do better than we are doing.

That Capt. Critchley's hack on business from inspection duties in U.S.A.

—0 Very little of certain American chassis much boomed earlier in the war.

That A.L.A.M. does not stand for aluminium, as one Government inspector thought.

. That mileage and tonnage are amongst the least M.T. troubles on active service.

That we were all keen on moonlight nights la•st year, but that now we want them cloudy—very cloudy.

From "The People," that there are too many solicitors in the M.T.—but why should that brand of public service be an exception?

That the reason some of the " Archie" batteries at the Front are clubbed "the travelling circus" is because of their successful camouflage.

That the new staff of petrol inspectors is getting busy and that they are already asking garage proprietors and others all sorts of questions.

• —0— Of an M.T. officer who, espying a, gudgeon bush with an oil-hole, ventured the comment, to the workshop sergeant, "Ah I drilled for lightness I see !" That Palmer pneumatics are almost exclusively. used in the air.

That the Holley vaporizer is after all to be made in. • the States for the present. • Of a promising new vaporizer for paraffin, which embodies automatic heat regulation.:_ That the Underground "then ' who were under Sir. Albert Stanley are spreading far afield.

That it is not proposed toerect a filling station at the National Gas Factory at Westminster.

That whilst there never was so much under control, there never has been se much out of control.

That the authorities are puzzled as to whether the women in the A.S.C. and R.F.C. should salute That if "it's love that makes the world go round," it's high time the German scientists devised an alter native fuel.

That the most enthusiastic coal-gas exponent in Bristol is Mr. W. H. Stradling, and he is rapidly converting others.

That a Wood-Milne footoperated tyre inflator is supplied to every submarine, but that one may not let one's readers hear for what purpose.

That some officials will not be satisfied until we are all engaged on some other business than our own and doing that in somebody else's hotel.

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Locations: L.A., Bristol

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