One Hears— Of the motorvan as the trtdesman's friend.
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That it's hard to get water at Sowerby Bridge.
That the agent is to be studied more generally.
That the Birmingham buses must be using paraffin.
That Nottingham's industrial-development officer is an old Liverpudlian.
That a dry battery aboard is an insurance against some magneto failures.
Of a quorum fixed at one less than the number present at any meeting.
Of provincial motorbuses for munition workers starting so early as 4.55 a.m.
That the petrol restrictions are teaching people to do with less and lesS luggage.
That a driver was recently charged with being drunk while in charge of a tank—lorry.
That office overcrowding in some .factories has reached the limit and is impairing efficiency.
That it's not the vaporizer but the driver that often determines the successful use of paraffin.
• That gas will be made all right as a fuel, and not for the period of the war only, for use in commercial motors.
"If the restriction in the use of petrol should result in a very great increase in the use of paraffin (from which petrol is made) the purposes of the Act will be defeated."—" Leicester Mail.' That sarcasm is seldom of constructive effect. That Henry Garner is selling a substitute fuel.
That the Daimler Co. is experimenting with paraffin.
That " Petrolior " made good at certain extensive trials recently.
That it's to be "The roads for commerce," as well as "The roads for the people."
That convoys of heavy vehicles carrying Dunlops arc frequent-on the Great North Road.
That a sign-post, formerly reading " i miles to Austin Works," has had to be altered to " I. mile," owing to works extension.
That 20 per cent, depreciation on commercial motor values for income-tax allowances should cheer up not a few owners during the remainder of the war.
"One of our greatest national assets since the outbreak of war has been the Dunlop rubber works "from a prominent official of the Munitions Supply Branch.
That it's to be hoped the German motor-wagon service between Islahie and Mamoura, from railhead to railhead of one break in the Bagdad line, will soon be interrupted.
That " The Times" stopped printing a recent issue to insert the to it amazing news that a Dutchman "has succeeded in conatructing a carburetter making it possible to use benzoie instead of petrol for motor engines."