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Of producer gastritis.
Of a certain demand for W.D. vehicles.
Of much talk about the future of exhibitions.
That it has been a favourite topic ever since the first Show.
"If you prize money, why not win a money prize? '
Of railway porters who are ceasing to covet coach drivers' jobs.
" Agriraot" on cultivating electricity and electrifying cultivation.
That every.firemaster wants his Own gadgets on his own fire-engines.
That it is a good thing that the mixture doesn't want to get rich quick.
That it is railway delays, as much as high freights, that scare away custom.
That railway travelling is a very dirty experience compared with travel by road.
That for one person who knows how to spell char-abanes there arc three that don't.
That "advertising in the C.21f.'' means increasing the sales staff to cope with inquiries.
That we thought of the exchange levelling idea some time ago. So did a good many others.
Of a farmer whom the railway charged 6s. 8d. for conveying a truck of 35 lambs a distance of four Miles.
That in pre-war days the charge for the same journey was only Os.
That a. good many people are tying to follow in Col. D. J. Smith's footsteps at the present time-and to out-produce him.
That the aforesaid gentleman is still smiling, none the less.
That it will be a big crush at Cambridge next June, but that there may be very few motor vehicles there if the S.M.M. and T. decides to ban the Royal under the Bond.
That it would be better for the industry as a whole if the steamer and electric-wagon makers signed the Bond, whatever may be said for the individual disadvantages of such decision.
That examples of self-sacrificing concurrence with the S.M.M. and T. suggestion to the principal makers voluntarily to choose White City sites at the Car Show are, to say the least of it, not numerous.
Lost, stolen, or strayed—Ben Zole, last seen about two months ago. and then going strong. Bit of a fuel. In bad odour in certain quarters, and may have been cornered. His friends would be glad to hear of him again. Of a lean ration.--Carburation.
That the Ford is not as black as it's painted.
That somebody has described the Ford as the black beat all.
Of a seasonable SpooneriSm about "tints and hips!: Nicholson on the old joke about which switch is which.
Also on how to get a connection off your own bat.
A. good deal about the variable quality of petrol nowadays.
That firing is more frequent than hiring in many works to-day.
That the railways have decided that it is better to cut than he cut.
That if one hears it here to-day, one reads it somewhere else to-morrow.
From abroad, that British goods are good, but their cost isn't good enough.
Of interested military experts amongst the "big guns" at the Tractor Trials.
Of increasing interest, on the part of users, in the question of fuel economy.
Of the Ford driver who said "When I'm in a fix, my motto's R.T.N.—rite to Nicholson."
That it is better to widen the roads than narrow the field of mechanical transport activities.
That the Guiicifoxt1 municipal authorities are well aware of the virtues of the home-grown product.
That Tank development and experiment is proceeding considerably, although" very little is being said about it.