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29th November 1917
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That breakfast is better than bullets.

Transport Tanks Trouble for the Teutons.

That interest in loading trucks or detachable bodies is growing.

That ships of moderate size are now_ being built in Birmingham.

That the chain track is a bad case of the exposed transmission gear.

That 6 per cent. of the total carbon burnt goes up the steam-wagon chimney.

That there's more point about these pars than there is about pins these days. '' That though there may be doubts about the scarcity of petrol, there is none about that of paraffin. .

That tens of thousands of gallons of petrol are lost annually by evaporation, particularly during "bulk-storage operations." • That breakfast has been washed out of the daily round of Meals in Petrograd, owing to the shortage of sugar, tea, milk and bread. • That the Americans have adopted the " 75 " as their standard field gun, a great feather in the cap of the French artillerist, especially as it is an old type invented 20 years ago.

That the Ministry recently cancelled its instructions to gas works to increase the supply of fuel oil by working at lower temperatures, as the results apparently have not justified such measures. Of converts to conversions.

Of inflated charges for inflation.

Much talk abbut trailers and trailer possibilities.

And of weird and wonderful home-made trailer devices.

Of vain efforts to prove that the work is not sedentary."

• That, unfortunately, Mr. Reginald Clayton, of Karrier Cars, is ill.

Vat Wood-Milne"s' have opened a fine depot in Wiginore Street, London.

That an enthusiastic van owner offered WoodMilne's £200 for their first gas cylinder.

That the British M.T. men got a rousing reception as they moved towards the Italian front line.

That "When the draper delivers the meat " brings to mind the conundrum, " Will the winkle wed the whelk."

That, at the suggestion of the authorities, other prominent makers, have had to pay visits to the Karrier works to observe the high standard of their work.'

That, despite the licence given to artists, a steamer unloading at the dockside should preferably be moored to a bollard and not anchored to the dock bottom.

That the Commissioner of Police probably intended his new bus order of April last, as well as the new reminder, as. a. hint that War-returned chassis would not be tolerated for London bus service.

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Locations: Birmingham, London

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