One Hears— May Or Mayn't.
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That coal-gas is coming to keep us going.
That the Editor has been promised a gas retort.
That there will have to be more getting acquainted.
—0 That not all the old P.C.C. gang have gone over to the B. of T.
That many Ford owners ire now arranging to be coal-gas buyers.
That sabre-rattling in Germany has given place to stomach-rattling.
That "The Electrical Review " seeks to speed the Plough electrically.
That wood-block roads are in difficulties, and not from thunderstorms only.
That more steam lorries are wanted overseas for Navy and Army purposes.
That "The Times," took up coal-gas in its engineering supplement of the 29th ult.
That if the Dennis factory'really looks like a recent advertisement it's time the local smoke inspector sat on it.
That it's more useful to be able to start a stubborn engine than to stalk steppingly in spurs in the M.T., A.S.C. _ That the " Evening News" seems both to get and use a lot of petrol to dust round with its various editions.
That shouting coal-gas from the house-tops will notmove some users, anci.that they will yet regret their immobility.
That the German war-plan of depopulating the Balkans by any and all means .still makes headway by head loss.
Of intended heavy after-war tolls on any German ships which are allowed to make the passage.of the Dover Straits.
Of many pneumatic tires, on taxicabs and light vans, which are punctured as a consequence of workshop carelessness.
That not a few members of parliament have adopted the gas-bag method for years, and that their deflation is no cagy matter.
That the skins of neither sheep nor pigs can at present be obtained in any numbers for the manufacture of flexible-gas-holders.
• That Captain A. G. Green. formerly an L.G.O.C. brain and now in the M.G.C. (Heavy Section), worked out the motorbus snow-plough for Nev York.
That home trade in the ILK. must be envisaged now and utilised later, in order .to preserve the motor trade before salvation can be found for it Overseas after mace. Of more disc wheel-covers for taxicabs.
There's no time for a "stand easy" yet.
That even the mention of snow was cooling, That there will be more unhappiness over coal.
That America's the place for light steel cylinders of high tensile strength.
That the Ford crew has re-embarked: a late June flower, not the Mayflower.
That many a paint-shop is empty, notwithstandingpotential demands for its services.
' That no single " power carter " of under 41 is now reckoned in a Certified 'Occupatian.
Of important experiments at Sheffield to produce light steel containers for compressed coal-gas by drawing. .
That people who think the use of coal-gas will re-: duce wear of tires should note that the total lifting power of 1000 cubic ft. is only about 40 lb. at ordinary temperatures.
That probably the worst case of spilling the milk was that near Ashbourne recently, when 80 churns , were tipped off one of the Nestle Co.'s motors which ran away downhill.
That the Central Committee for Employment of Discharged Soldiers and Sailors connected with the MovorkIndustry (83, , Pall Mall, London,. S.W.), continues to make excellent progress with its organiza tion. ,