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That Southwark B.C. is riot in British .Columbia.
That if food prices go up we ,shall have to put less down.
OE a new method of electing the Council of the S.M.M. and T.
The wish that more makers would look Edge-wise at the 10 cwt. van.
That the C.M. will be ." at home"—i.e., at your home—on Tuesdays.
That the electric vehicle needs to be expert-proof as much as fool-proof.
That 2d. for three-quarters of a mile is a high fare for "standing room only."
That the Joint Committee in charge of the Slough inquiry is getting disjointed.
That the ifiquiry will lead to nothing in particular being done.
That the secret of the consistent good quality of St. 'Helens hand tyres is now. revealed.
Of an entirely new type of taxi, but that only the optimists hope for a new type of driver.
That many a Government Department has mastered the deep art of how to avoid departing.
That the Germans are saying "Down with Eng-, laud " because they know it's all up with Germany.
That the commercial air rewte across the Atlantic, if it ever be established, should be airship property.
Rumours of the impending resignation of Sir A. Steel-Maitland from the Department of Overseas Trade.
That the Treasury has kept too tight a hand on this Department to permit of free development.
That the Rome Office is showing increasing attention to the subject of the position of lamps on motor vehicles.
That no further time should be lost in nationalizing the technical requirements of local public-service licensing authorities.
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That the motor industry is sorry to learn of the resignation of Sir Albert Stanley from theTresidency of the Board of Trade.
From Edinburgh.—Citizen, proudly showing the cable tramways to American visitor: ." There, you have nothing like that in the States." American: "Why, no I But then, you see, we've only been discovered about 400 years. ' That the land that stocks the spare parts rules the trade.
That, quite needlessly, it was for a day or two, dis-Mayfair.
That present-day petrol might well be christened the D-grade.
That West Worthing's nerves must be in rather a shaky condition.
The C.M.17.A. new membership for May exceeds all previous records.
Of would-be-drinkers trying to climb the wall at the L.G.O.C. alcohol-benzole depot. , That Sir Mareus has no intention whatever of sinking oil wells in Berkeley Square.
That the Surplus Stores Department has too much on hand in more senses than one.
That the Ford agency for Nova Zembla is still open, but that agents should look lively.
That the little chickens used to cry, "Cheap, cheap " when they saw a eFord coming.
That the prespeetive purchaser now exclaims, " Dear, dear when he hears the price.
That there's a movement on foot to insist that tramcars shall be made less noisily obnoxious.
That "Lorries, Cars and Fords" is the classification adopted in certain Army inventory forms.
That being addressed in the tube by "Now then, sardines!'! does not buck you up as it should.
That "'Ammer, 'ammer, 'airliner on the 'ard 'igh road i has a new meaning n these pot-holey days.
That, curiously enough, it is still nobody's job to keep that fine Lytharn-Blackpool coast road ir renair.
That now the P.C.D. of the Board of Trade is defunct there can no longer be confusion between it and the Petroleum Exequtve of the War Cabinet.
That when, if ever, the whole tale of our M.T. unpreparedness for anything big in 1914 is known then shall we marvel that we wete not worse dealt with by the Huns than we were—marvel and praise the first M.T. personnel.
That while Blackpool has permitted a large area of foreshore to be taken over by a private aircraft company for passenger-service purposes, one wonders what would have been their attitude if the application had been to build a temporary garage for motorbuses or chars--banes.