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Of new motor ventures in Ireland.
Of. a championship claim of Wells that did not hold water.
That we must not expect summer time to begin with Summer Time.
That the German Navy will he more useful as scrap than it was as a scrapper.
That beer barrels are now priced and that the contents are not in any sense priceless.
That London is desirous of absorbing its ancestral county. • That so far .the coal conference has only heated debates.
That only a little snow is the undoing of 'horsed transport, That twenty London omnibuses will soon be running on alcohol.
That London's alcohol-driven buses will not be licence,d premises within the meaning of the Act.
That it will be considered bad Forint° call the conductress of an alcohol-driven bus " waitress" or to . demand a double Scotch and small soda.
Nor may the penny fare be dubbed a "nip."
Nor will it he an offence against D.O.R.A. and her " no-treating " regulation to pay another's fare.
That eye-wash, now recommended for people with influenza, has long been used by those without influence, That the German infantry aptly dubbed their M.T. men " Benzin-Husaren," which calls neither for translation nor explanation.
Of anxious Jewish dealers' inquiries as to when, where and., how the Army is to sell its old vehicles— and that it is their first effort in the motor world, in most cases, Of bulk storage installations. • --O — Of stultification instead of stimulation.
That it will soon be impossible to miss Leyland.
That it should be " one chassis, one price "—and no discount.
That some people are getting tired of scrapping petrol cans.
Of tram conductors back at work, but still in full khaki—bar the belt.
That one of the .b!g by-products bf this war seems to have been bigamy.
That profits are not without honour if saved for our own countrymen.
That Ford's Dearborn factory has 20,000 tractor orders on its peace programme.
That no self-respecting sardine would travel in the Tubes between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m.
That the comnion prejudice of manufacturers against components does not extend to magnetos and carburetters.
.Nothing about the price of benzole or whether it will compete with petrol on price or perfection of distribution.
That the proposed new bridge over the Forth at South Alloa will be an important adjunct to North Britain's transport system.
That if Ireland receives many more exemptions from parliamentary enactions she will soon have a discontented England to reckon with.
That lots of old public-service bedies, interned chassis-less for three or four years. are now prancing out of the works on brand new chassis, That Mr. George Heath is considerably bucked over the oil finds at Chesterfield, and hopes that borings on his own estate may soon be started.