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?he following Rumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
" Have you got/ your collecting card ?" Of hobble-skirt motorbuses in New York, That there are two Mr. Herbert Samuels.
That the Preston police always have been reasonable.
That the latest rule of the Austin Co. is an "e tente " one.
Of aeroplane-type trailers in demand by some commercial users.
That any fund which is afraid to publish its receipts is a poor thing.
That each soldier has his full fill daily, thanks to the A.S.C., That the sittings of the Royal Commission on Railways are suspended.
Of Daimler-Foster tractors on their way to artillery duty on Midland roads, That Croydon T.C. may shortly decide to seek motorbus running powers.
That bodies for 25 American-German-Dainders are being built in the country.
That company promoters are having the leanest time of their lives just now.
That Notts, County Council has decided to offer no opposition to the scheme for making Nottingham a port.
That entries of " Implements " for this year's R.A.S.E. show must reach Mr. McRow by the 20th prox.
That all the samples of one well-known make of ctminetcial vehicle are being sent back from the Front.
That the driver of the first British Berna lorry to reach the cast of the Rhine is to get 225, and the first into Berlin 250.
That the new L.G.O.C. garage at Bromley Road, Catfood, has gone into the arms of the W.D., the way the Tottenham one did.
£32; £185; 2250 ; 2324 ; 2421 ; 2565 ; £660; 2761 ; 2880 ; £1029; 21183 ; £1355; 21607 ; £1784; £2099; and .22152 (to the 30th ult.).
That insufficiency of adheFion when unloaded is causing a lot of trouble at the Front, particularly with lorries of some makes.
That 20 new commercial-vehicle models were nut on the American market last year, while 57 U.S.A. truck companies ceased to manufacture in the same period.
That the method of starting certain types of ltrries on active service is to drain the radiators over-night and to heat the water before returning it to the circulation system in the morning. Of many tire tyros.
Of battery betterment.
Of a prime prime-mover.
A good word for the M.F.O. Southampton.
Of the formation of the "0.0.B.C." very shortly.
That there are POW more ste.arn wagons on rubber tires than ever leaving the factories.
That Barry Cole is leaving Commer Cars to go to a Scottish motor-vehicle concern.
That when an L.G.O. man asks if you liko Fastnuts, you should hide your :own cigar. ,ease.
Of quite a small bOOm in agricultural motors, to make good the shortage of labour in the coming year.
That temperature oscillations since the 1st December have been particularly degrading to roads generally.
That many of us are learning to talk in. initials, now that we've mastered the military ahbrevs.
' That not through Belgium but past it holds the Germans both by land ,and sea on the maximum Western front.
That this year's C.M.U.A. lectures for drivers will be sent by post, and that the "parade" will not go beyond in eo salons.
That, whilst correspondence with 68 0.C.s of M.T. Columns at the Front takes some keeping up, one gleans a lot from it, That "About skids" might appropriately have been headed alternatively About turns " in these days of military phrases.
That financial success is anticipated for the Manchester Show of April next, due to the likely participation of "outsiders."
That the hide of many a poor horse fallen on active service is being worn as gloves sent out by the C.C. Fund for the A.S.C., M.T.
That the receipt of 20 letters in one day from officers of the A.S.C., M.T., at the Front is nothing unusual on the distribution side of the Fund.
That the Austin works, between spells of pressure in executing military orders for the Allies, keep turning out excellent electric-lighting sets.
That Waring and Gillow, Ltd., is very busy in all its cabinet works on orders for the Government, but that lack of transport is still troublesome.
That the latest war store to be carried by motorvan is a typhoid germ, and that as it takes ten million of him to inoculate one man successfully, he does not occupy much space