One Hears
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That petrol's sun has passed its zenith.
That the guns have replaced St. Swithin this year: I must be hot stuff," from -the paraffin as it enters the cylinder.
That the cash proceeds of that obnoxious Clause 20 will be negligible.
That Berlin is getting its pincers ready to draw the nails out of Hindenberg's statue.
That electrics might do something big just now if delivery on the large scale were possible.
That before every motorbus and motor char-&-bancs there trots the ghost of a horsed turn-Out That the Department of Import Restrictions, at 22, Carlisle Place, S.W., began to get busy at once.
That the BritishDe-Tinning Co., of 75, New Street, Birmingham, is gathering up. all the tinned goods that can be treated.
That the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. has issued a beautiful July-June wall calendar, thus lifting this form of advertisement out of the January ruck.
That the County Councils Association has. learned with consternation that its snatch clause of last Easter admits prior use by horse-drawn omnibuses or carriers' carts as a fulfilment of the imposed Condition-precedent to place a new route for motorbuses outside their extinguishing grip. That P.B.'s eke-glass has also worn thin.
That one after-war selling point will be—" We, of course, fit a multi-fuel carburetter."
That the great change in carburetters will be as general as the gate 'change in gears.
That the staff is growing-daily at the new offices of the Petrol Control Committee in Berkeley Street.
That the scheme for building standardized ships at Chepstow presages the early establishment of nucleus motorbus lines locally.
That the Fund is accelerating its rate of despatch of playing-cards, to help the men to while away the time while standing by.
That Mr. W. Worby Beaumont, M.I.E.-E., etc., etc., has been appointed R.A.C. representative on the Electric Vehicle Committee, That taxi owner-drivers appear to be amazed that they are (and have been in the past) liable to be income-taxied on their profits before setting these aside to pay purchase instalments.
That any reader of TEE COMMERCIAL MOTOR can, on payment of a, fee of 24s., obtain the figures for five years concerning imports of any class of goods, on application to the Principal Officer, Statistical Department, Board of Customs and Excise, Lower Thames Street, E.