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5th November 1914
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Keywords : Light Rail, Tram, Bus, Headlamp, Glove

-The following Rumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.

Of more guns on rubber tires.

That the Tubes are Taube-proof.

"Come into the Comforts Fund."

0 That it did not take long to reach g20.

That a new and pressing demand will be for compensation.

That more B'a will soon be swarming in the North of France.

That A.S.C. inspectors have been keen on the starting-up test of late.

" Please to remember the men with the wagons."

That one way to provide a Comfort is to deny one to oneself for a time.

• Of people who wish to supply route numbers to provincial motorbus owners.

That the "C.M." Fund will help to bring some excellent driving gloves to the front.

That an official Government pronouncement about leather couplings is to be expected.

That with transport and supply arranged, the " 0.M." Fund makes a double call on readers.

That to be fashionable as well as bomb-proof, the glass roofs of all big London garages are to be painted khaki.

A request far "The C.M.'s ' capable, candid and completely confidential criticism" of a new threet onner.

yhat when a vehicle is reported as damaged at the Front the back portion of it also may have got into trouble.

That the insides of tramcars would now make good dark-rooms for amateur photographers—or other young people.

That all "C.M." gifts from the "Campaign Comforts" Fund will be sent in the name of its readers who have contributed.

That the "C.M." tramcar cartoon of August has applied to the real thing since the motorbuses Went to the war last month.

That some Canadian hotels have their own sidings and railcars, but that the independent motorbu.s is more favoured generally.

That several makers who promised freely are hung up in their W.D. deliveries by want of materials, and mostly for steel and ball bearings. That they've mined the mud. London's whisper "Keep it dark."

"CM." Comforts motto "Keep it going."

That gloves are more wanted than sacks.

That the comforts will keep each driver fitter. That 40 London buses recently went to Sunderland.

From Sir John Fisher, that moderation in warfare is imbecility.

That next Wednesday's Inst A.E. meeting should be worth attending.

That not all motor-trade advertisements ia Russia have been suspended.

That the plan view of headlamp glare is the most conspicuous of all lights.

That "one shall be taken and the other left" has of late had a new significance.

Of field fakements to circulate exhaust gases for warming purposes above the platforms.

That when some of the A.S.C. officers asked for their commissions, they did not expect to he employed as chief clerks.

That the British officer whose job is to issue permits for the delivery of Bosch magnetos has not got the hardest job in the country.

That a lot of recent commercial-vehicle deliveries of a certain well-known make have been sent back to the works for reasons which were not unanticipated.

That the Admiralty is relieved that the moon has consented to the London regulations with regard to lowering of lignts, and will be more discreet in future.

That the wagon containing twelve 4.7 shells which was in some trouble when it caught fire, owing to the pipe-smoking of its driver, was a valuable three-ton Albion.

That the "special damages" arising, in case of disaster to an Ally's arms, from the non-delivery of contract vehicles, might conceivably amount to an immense sum.

That sundry considerable potholes at Grove Park, Lewisham, are not due to Black Marias. but to the turning movements of A.S.C. drivers under examination and test.

That on one -of a convoy of London buses which passed through Bromley on Thursday of last week, en route for the Continent, carrying spare wings, there was chalked the somewhat premature inscription "The Kaiser's Bus."

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Organisations: Comforts Fund, g20, Press Bureau
People: John Fisher
Locations: Sunderland, London

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