One Hears— Of threads drawn into one.
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That Churchill's for coal-gas.
That the Bulls are now to have a .turn. That rival welders still make sparks fly. That it is not all hot air about coal-gas.
Of the death of many a live-axle design.
About where Germany will not come in.
More than one sees, but less than one feels.
No more sneering at coal-gas from thinkers.
Of official inquiries for second-hand steam rollers.
. That it's not as nice as it once was to be a farmer's boy.
That Lieut. J. C. Moth is inValided home from France.
. That his greatest trial now is that they awaken him at 5.30 a.m. to give him a cup of tea.
That this is worse than the Irish nurse who woke her patient to give him his sleeping draught.
That roadstone has been zoned on the same bread lines as coal.
That timber supplies are becoming a deal more restricted daily.
That Fashion Street, Spitalfields, E., ought to be renamed Scammell's Highway.
That the canny Scotch mean to get out of canned fuel by using all they can out of bags.
That the Steel Barrel people at Uxbridge would i take a greater interest n the Tanks if they were welded.
That. the Ford tractor order runs to a cool million of money, pace the original estimate of little more than £100 each.
Queries as to where all the horses arc to come from for the Food Production Department's huge agricultural-implement programme.
That the Inland Water Transport Department was not responsible for last week's aqueous demonstrations, nor was the new Tank Corps.
That the shipment of much more petrol is being arranged in America, on behalf of the Government, but that dates of despatch remain in abeyance.
That presesiteday inconveniences of family travelling are creating after-peace demands for saloon motorbuses to take parties to and from the sea. Good-bye to " tire."
Of coming rivalry between makers of aras-holders.
That turning over is not necessarily effective ploughing.
Less of Carter Paterson's and Piekford's than one did.
"Thank you" from the British Commercial Gas Association.
That "1017: the agent's year" will stand every reexamination.
That this country's best pipe-line is now found to. be the gas main.
That the " Once-over Tiller " does it in once, not once but everywhere.
That there are more farms of over 100 acres than under in this country.
That several rubber-tire companies arc preparing to market flexible gas-holders.
Of trainloads of would-be visitors returned from South Coast resorts accommodationless.
Fewer explosions off the entrance to Plymouth Sound than were heard. three months ago: That the A.A. will let loose a big road 'programme the day before peace is signed—or sooner: That the leading spirits in the petrol world are now perturbed about the spurts of ,coal-gas.
That many a seaside garage is far too crowded for the peace-of-mind of the Petrol Control Board.
That the munitioneer, of both sexes, shows evidence in holiday-time of not too straitened circumstances.
That by some it was hoped nine months ago Henry Ford might settle the Irish question by Corking it.
That the acknowledgment of the British Commercial Gas Associationto this journal is generous yet fair.
That it is a crusted joke amongst the steam people to explain that dirty water in the boiler is caused by dirty coal.
That the recent Treasury refusal to find £350,000 for American agrinaotors had nothing to do with the Ford compact..
That no gas-holder for road work has so far been sold larger than 1150 cubic ft. in capacity-23 it. in length by 8 ft. in diameter..
That thb L.G.O.C. is not to be allowed to have London's motorbus business as its own particular preserve after the war, and that plans therearient are already afoot.