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The following Runtours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
Again—" What about Holland ?"
Of more British threetonners on the way.
That Epsom councillors still want pressure.
Of Austrian-made chairs in Luton Town Hall.
Of some wonderful things in munition inspection.
That everybody's busy doing somebody else's job.
. Of the use of X-Rays to detect blow-holes in castings.
That the demand for lorries panding. to carry coal is ex • That if Protection piecemeal. comes it will not be adopted That more fewer things. munition works are now engaged on That Watson's of Newcastle are busy on another type of lorry.
Of a cyclecar which wrecked a motorbus—think of the " v" part of the tiny2.
Of inquiries as to why so many L.G.O. men are wearing war-service badges.
That electric lighting is soon to replace acetylene throughout a certain big fleet.
That it would be well, just now, if imported lorries were not fitted with German gauges.
That China had excellent roads 2000 years ago— since when they've not been repaired.
From the Front:---" If you could only shut up some of the London papers, it would be fine."
That the development of the Thames Valley by motorbus services cannot be completely undertaken while war is on.
That many Russian M.T. drivers are not satisfied with a quiet gear change, but will continue to engage until they achieve a good " crunch."
Of the refusal by the Government of a big consignment. of certain lorries from U.S.A. because emery Lad been put into their cylinders by persons un1< nowt'.
That, whilst the Highways Committee of the L.C.C.
claimed to have saved the ratepayers £134,400 by maintaining the paving between and adjacent to its
144 miles of track, the actual, money spent on the paving per se is now admitted to have been only £60,156.
Of the following notice in the waiting room or a big lorry-manufacturing concern.
" The hours of attendance in this office are :— To canvassers for church subserintions 10 till 2. To book and insurance agents 2 till 4. To commercial travellers, beggars and advertisement men. All day.
We attend to our own business at night." That loads at the Front are either live or dead.
That there will have to be more women conductors.
Of caterpillar men suitably located in a French orchard. 0 That by the time the country is saved the roads will want saving.
That no more spares are being taken for the impressed lorries.
Of an Austin applicant who had had " practical vice experience."
That trailer ambulances may be used, after the war, for camping-out purposes.
From an 0.0_, in France, that "Clayton steamers are doing very good work."
That drilling still goes on in the old Thames motor works, but that it's not done the old way.
Thatphotographers are now More carefully "warned off" at certain A.S.C., MT., depots.
—0 That W.1). lorries are being used more extensively;
with chairs for seats, to give outings to the wounded.
That the proprietor of a Bromley (Kent) hotel speaks five languages, but that Gaelic is not one of them.
That plans for additions to the works of the National Steam Car Co.; Ltd., .at-Chelmsford, have been approved by the Town Council.
That Mr. James Sumner, for some 20 years manager of the Leyland works, and for some Years a director of Leyland Motors, Ltd,. bore no small share in preparing the designs for the new works-extensions, and particularly so in reference to numerous points bearing on the comfort of the eirkoloyees.