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Growls against Agrails.
Of the hunt for the one-tonner.
Of huge orders for peace-time paint.
Of departmental valedictions innumerable. " Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the air."
That we'll keep to our right to keep to the left.
That much of the present commercial flying talk is hot air.
That there will shortly be more women taxi-drivers in London.
That the second-hand problem is of first-hand importance.
That the greatest examples of labour dilution extant were the British New Armies.
That this burglary season doesn't seem an appropriate time for demobilizing the specials.
That, although judicious lubrication lengthens. the life of a chassis, a well-oiled driver may shorten it.
That " salvage " has quite superseded " reconstruction " and " liquidation ' as a word to juggle with.
That Lord Inchcape and the " Inspector " constitute another example of the adage about great minds thinking alike.
That the industry is doing a lot of demonstration work in Germany just now—but that no orders are being booked as a result.
That " Agrimot's " fears of difficulties between the S.M.M. and T. and the Royal Agricultural Society c.ver the Bond Question are Quite unfounded. More about large twin pneumatics.
That Long Acre is losing its status rapidly.
Of London County Council conversion to motorbuses.
_A call for wiping out all regulations with regard to unladen weights.
That the conductors on the tubes are to be provided with tin openers.
That official control at every stage of everything must be discouraged.
That the new detachable heads of the Guy twolonner are worth examination.
That Mr. C. S. Windsor, of Bartle's, is away on a flying trip to U.S.A.—but not really.
That they're paying some of the Government's own pivotal men quite decent salaries to stop.
That, in future, the men who will sell commercial vehicles will have to be Soundly technical.
That the Tramways Department of the L.C.C. will now drop the museum air when regarding motorbuses.
That "the Contr-Actors " is the appropriate name assumed by a clever Ministry of Munitions concert party.
That the rule of the road is not a subject with which the Peace Conference is in the least concerned—it is the rule of the waves that is to be decided.
Of a newspaper correspondent who recently visited a silent munitions factory and who was saddened by the sight of a heap of "links that would never help to bind together a Tank."