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Of a recent meeting of the Machine Tool Makers at Manchester.
The motor section at the Arts Club, Manchester— especially on Thursday evenings.
That the majority of Wood-Milne directors hail from Rochdale, where the oanvas comes from.
That " Farmer " Puilinger was in the Midlands recently buying cattle.
That his output of aeroplane engines is not relaxed.
That Mr. Ernest Brown, of Brown Bros., Ltd., is working hard for the Benevolent Fund.
That he would grace the chair of the Annual Dinner if that function were not abandoned for this year.
That Major Chas. Jarrott, D'Arcsr .Baker (Fiat's), Arthur Goodwin (C.A.V.'s), F. C. Baisley (Dunlops), and G. H. Smith were seen in Cottonopolie last week.
Of an old saw being revised :—" As ye agrimote so shall ye reap !"
. That Motor Club people gather round to " hear " Johnny Adams. playing Slosh."
That the authorities sometimes insist on' steels almoth impossible to obtain, whereas Ubas would fill the bill.
That the motor community in Manchester, although keen trade.competitors,_are really friendly and cheerful withal. •
That the Investigation Officer of the Petroleum Executive at the recent gasdemonstration had to leave the building at intervals to refill his lungs with fresh air, and that an Investigation Officer ought to be able to stand more than that !
That the Investigation Officer of the Petroleum Executive may have conducted his investigations from the giddy eminence of the top step of a ladder ?
(Or the writer does) singing in the head whenever he is even only slightly gassed," but he was in Thornycroft's garage some hours on end at the gas demonstration (and talking all the time) with never a suspicion of a head. Of extensive changes in the M.P. official personnel.
That since a, Zepp got to the Midlands, gap bags are booming there.
That though people talk loosely of tractors, not every tractor is an agrimotor.
That almost anything is good enough to be called a munition works nowadays.
Of coal-wharf weigh-bridges being used to test the weight of some W.D. stock.
That the Zeppelin bombs did not get a notable Midland motor works after all, although report said so.
That hi-monthly means " occurring every two month" according to Webster, Nuttall, and a few other authorities.
That one gentleman at the Macintosh luncheon holds an opposite view like many others.
That still another luncheon, for two only this time, will ceme out of this. That second-hand tools and machinery are just now worth " a, jew's eye."
That a constant gang of workmen are going round to garages in turn renovating the bodies of commandeered chassis.
• From Professor Thompson, that a horse is designed on principles exactly similar to those adopted by mechanical engineers.
That the last of the certificates and badges awarde,e to drivers at the 1917 C.M.U.A. examinations will soon be under way.
That refuges are not places of safety in narrow thoroughfares and only cauee annoyance and aggravation to traffic on the road.
That the condition of the wings and back panele of some light commercial vehicles is an indication of careless and incompetent driving.
That lots of people talk of basic or acid steel without knowing what they mean by such term's— neither of the adjectives applies to the steel but to the processes of production, the acid will not extract the phosporous, the basic will.