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That petrol relief will come soon.
That the last motorcab home has gone, That few women drivers will drive at night.
That the cab-ranks are now as full as the Army ranks.
That the multiplicity of local fuel claims is beyond eJtitrol.
That it's time the Zeppelins were peppered to some purpose.
That petrol is still being used for the enrichment of town gas.'
That the largest proprietors of petrol in America are Irishmen.
That two-fuel carburetters are being ordered by the dozen daily.
That " The roads for the people" will be one voteroad after the war.
Of patches for inner tubes that are put on with petrol instead of solution.
Complaints that people may now neither use nor wet their whistles after ten.
That it's cheaper to double the consumption of lubricating oil than of engines.
That smoke prosecutions are pushing not a few steam-wagon owners on to coke.
That there. will have to be a fight against "The roads for the railway companies."
That petrol bore the advance in Prance, which is still borne on it, and will be bored on by it.
That most chiefs of police will readily certify much char-a-banes running under . exception "C " of the Order.
That the gas companies of the country are bent on selling benzole later on, and that no distribution costs will arise.
That Mr. Lloyd George has been taking a personal interest in the position of char-h-bancs services in Carnarvonshire.
That nearly 20 years have elapsed since Mr. Worby Beaumont laid it down that _" the motor-transport problem is a road problem."
That 20 years ago to-morrow (the 1st September, 1896) the late Lord Derby became president of the Liverpool Self-propelled Tra,ffic Association. Taxi-whispering.
Generally before the others.
Because one usually gets there first.
That the petrol is there right enough.
Of a hard stand against that standard.
Of the imminent reproduction of gasNproducers.
That unsettlement invariably precedes) settlement.
That there will be a road party in the next Parliament.
That the Government did not suggest no holidays for anybody.
That nothing should be normal for anybody having regard to the war.
That the L.C.C. Highways Committee is really unhappy about its trams.
That if Mr. Lloyd 'George left the Cabinet there would be no Cabinet left.
That there's too much joy-riding in motorcars on the Chichester-Selsey road.
Tim the county boroughs will fight the countycouncil scheme for hemming them in.
That whilst much petrol is in the air, more than is wanted remains stored on 'terra firma.
Of a lot of looking the other way while petrol finds its way where private motorists want it.
That as many petrol subterfuges as substitutes are at present popular amongst private-car users.
That the callers who get extra licences at 39, Berkeley Street, W., are the polite and reasonable ones.
That it's not clear what will happen to the petrol hoklings of char-à-bancs owners who are licensed to buy but not to use.
That. while other intending hirers were cooing for a taxi outside a London theatre one night last week an officer on leave called out " 'Shun " and got it.
That the Labour Party was responsible for the appointment of the Petrol Control Committee—no holidays for munition workers, no motoring for pleasure.
That whilst no char-h.-banes may after to day (Thursday) run other than approved trips usinopetrol there is nothing in the Order to prevent the use use of petrol for starting up engines as may be necessary.