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Why not carburetted coal ?
That the steam car i, a ucees d'estirne.
Of a dealer who sold a lorry the other day.
That only the very best survive Friday nights.
That guaranteed profits mean certain inefficiency.
A plea for untrammelled progress through the streets.
That flexible suspension has a direct influence on silence.
That the trade platform of the brewer lorry-owner should be liberal barrelage.
That railway-haulage prospects are dark, but that where there's a. road there's a ray.
That the scuttling of pressed steel dashes, even if only slightly, reduces lamp " dither" such a lot, That there are several unpleasantly emaciated babies being nursed, unwillingly, at the present time.
That the nursemaids now wish they hadn't done it..
But that life is just one big gamble anyway.
That motors are quite an entomological study, with their butterfly nuts, flywheels, worms, and caterpillars.
That a lot of thought is being expended in the States on the subject of improving fuel vaporization at low speeds.
That they are not worrying much about power alcohol in America—the absence of the other sort concerns them more.
" Yes, they're good brakes" said the coach driver, " but don't let's brag about them, in case they fail to act some time or other."
• Of a motor mechanic who misquoted Hamlet thus: " This timing's out of joint : 0 cursed spite • That I was ever born to set it right!"
Talk about Government departments stifling trade, what about the demand they create for cardboard, glass, sheet metal, screws, and lunatic asylums.
From an unprejudiced observer, that the Giant tyre seems to be giving satisfaction in the States.
That the increased speed obtained by the use of the air-filled tyre is very noticeable over there, and sometimes distinctly embarrassing to the pottering pedestrian.
That the latter has a rough time anyway ." over there," That a recent cab company report shows distinctly load luck, as the methods of organization of the concern are admirable in every way and have repeatedly called forth congratulatory remarks Of the Ford van as a busy Lizzie.
Many a "bon met" from" Agrimot." That but few front-wheel pairs lock alike. That where there•!s a wheel, there's -a way.
Of many quests after an "economic situation."
Of coach fleet standardization. -Very sound policy, too.
That there will be more resolutions than revolutions broken this month.
That 5 per cent. for ready cash is a krong inducement.
That the Packard fuelizer device is an improve'ment on the crude "hot spot."
That a well-known Coventry carburetter manufacturer was recently in the States.
That he was not on the look-out for hot spots.
That it is pretty cold out there just now anyway, but there is still plenty of hot air about.
That it was notaa, bad plan of some manufacturers when they bought back war stocks of spare parts..
That the seasonal model is as dead as the dodo. R.I.P. (Reason is "Production.") There is a "recovery in small arms." The boom, however, will not affect the standard lengths of control levers.
That "Hints on Overhauling" are not to be extended to include horsed vehicles, our motto being ",M.T. uber alles."
That we are not starting a series of articles under the heading of " Hints on Overloading," as apparently the subject is well understood.
That the -tractor is lightening the curse of Adam, but that—as Kipling says—it won't really be lightened until we have lightened the curse of Eve.
That we have no suggestions to make as regards the latter–it beats us every time ; but it is an a " tractive" problem.
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That a well-planned sales offensive might, in the opinion of some people, be carried well into the home market of the U.S.A.., in about nine months' time.
That liberty has been defined as "Freedom of action within the limits of,a just law." Presumably licence—motor licence—is "Freedom (sic) of action within the limits of an unjust law.".