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That Heligoland, once ceded by gulls to the eagle, is now to go to the seagulls.
That Major Cannon is due back on the " Aquitania," and that he has not had a bad time on the whole.
Of a big selling company in which several prominent retailers will be combined to market a well-known British lorry.
That a firm decision as to the method of disposing of surplus Government lorries has been almost, if not quite, reached.
That the old Technical Committee of the motor industry has breathed its last, and is superseded by the Technical Committee of the A.B.M.A.M.
That the attention of Mr. Andrew Weir and Lord Inverforth has been drawn by critics of the Slough scheme to the sad story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
(From a Britisher home from America):— That Wilson won the war.
That Peerless are concentrating on cars.
That the only thing you get for nothing in America is ice water.
That there are no wpmen there nowadays—they are all " girls."
That those Commer cars—or some of them at any rate—are still running.
That while much of the railway stock has no buffers, most of the cars have fenders.
That we have precious little to learn in shop methods from the Yankees, and they know it.
That the only thing different about American methods is quantity—and certainly not technique.
That they had a puzzling task to dispose of huge quantities of mustard gas, made too late to be used.
That there are more Britishers in responsible positions in Yankee factories than is believed over here.
That Liberty is more in evidence at the entrance to New York Harbour than anywhere else in the States.
That there are huge pot-holes in Broadway—put down to the subways, but really due to bad road construction.
That the funniest things in motorbuses are those in Chicago, and that they ought to be fitted with castors instead of wheels.
That amongst America's biggest war-time production disappointments were planes, lorries, engines, shells, ships and poison gas.
That the real passenger in New York subways is the straphanger, and that seats are only provided for the extra ones who crowd in.
That American car design-has made huge stride; during the war, but that there has not been corresponding advance in commercial vehicles.
That commercial Tanks, made in the U.S.A., were to have been used for goods haulage over devastated areas if they had been completed in time.
That they have got the wind up about England's prior chance of orders in Europe, and that they think we are now the best organized country in the world.