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" Let's all turn to gas."
Of many new buyers in waiting.
That Glasgow means to make gas go.
That tissue paper is often a lying lining.
That gas will hereafter turn the limelight oh petrol.
That to say the Essen magneto is essential is all bos(c)h.
That the coal-gas shake-up is permeating the gas industry.
That we are not playing at Vaast and Loos with Germany.
That Americans who have settled in our midst do not appear to be in any mist.
That many a tail-light is not red enough to be distinguished from a dimmed side-light.
That it adds to the good plan of a motorbus platform to whiten the edge of the lowest step.
That some people want to make out that "British built" is the same as "Built up in Britain."
That there is to be patent litigation over here about making " trucks " out of Fords by conversion.
—c That as the war causes more fatalities at the Front it makes more fatalists amongst those who are left at home.
That two runs-through with coal-gas are enough to get rid of the air in any rigid container which is filled from the top.
That hundreds of ladies have, very fortunately for the Fund, frozen on to the offer of free wool to knit mufflers before the 30th inst.
That numbers of women drivers of private cars seem to find it necessary to "perambulate" the most crowded and central thoroughfares.
That the filling-valve in any rigid holder for coalgas should be at the top, and the delivery-valve at the bottom, in order to avoid waste on the first charge.
That although discarded British Army" stores" are not permitted talbeasold in France, a notable exception is that of horses, of which the disposal of many thousands has already occurred. Of another paraffin flotation projected.
A noticeable diminution of motor noters.
That someone ought to." curb the flag days."
That not every light van is light on pneumatics.
That the Fund still has an open mouth—and maw.
That is has become a hotter job to drive a "tank."
That the commercial motor is wheel economy, weally.
Of a man who in part relied on his." sehoolastic " training.
That Mr. Massac Buist admires all weight-saving engineers.
That coal-gas is at least ten times cleaner in use than paraffin, That the Russian alphabet can be learned in four or five lessons.
That those who professedly dislike this page always turn to it first.
That the powers that be won't authorize a pump as a certified measure.
That London now has some 6000 women conductors en motorbuses and tramcars.
That the Dunlop "pink form " has nothing to do with the Military Service Acts.
That whilst some sigh for fame, President Wilson remains content with noteability.
That some police constables appear to imagine they have the right to vary the new Lighting Orders.
Of pedestrians providing themselves with bells and other audible warnings to denote their approach.
That the purchasing power of light-van owners will before many years exceed that of motorcar owners.
That taxi-cabs may in the future draw coal-gas from lamp-posts, as they have so much time to spend on cab-ranks.
That. Mr. Alfred Brown collected 21250 at the M.T.A. meeting at Cardiff, in aid of the Motor Trade Benevolent Fund.
That Mr. Alexander Johnston, general manager of the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., has been madi5 a Justice of the Peace for the county of the City of Edinburgh.