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The following Rumours, of which the Press Bureau has no Confirmation, but to the Publication of which, we imagine, it will take no exception.
That C.M.U.A. income keeps up well. That woman drivers want a column. That steam-wagon drivers must stand.
That it is a sound method to detect speed by the ear.
That Lieut.-Col. W. E. Donohue is hack from the Front.
, That " weights and taxes" sounds like something Of American chassis being sold For the period of the war."
Of a Customs Officer temporarily attached to the Comforts Fund.
That either W.S.A. or W.S.B. will in any event represent L.S.D.
Of motorbus services which are owned by the passengers who use them.
That even the police describe the trams at Holborn Hall as a nuisance.
That "Shell" motor-spirit interests subscribed £500,000 to the War Loan.
That some have come from the U.S.A. who are making arrangements to stay.
That the seat on a trailer-van is a grand place from which to view the countryside.
That "Illustrations of Excavations as Obstructions" has served a useful purpose.
That there may soon be a new road, between Andover boundary and Park House Camp.
That Aveling and Porter, Ltd., of Rochester, is taking up the motor-ambulance business.
That Cleveland, i U.S.A., cannot find sufficient mechanics to enable t to cope with War orders.
That Italy's entry into the war has still further increased American commercial-motor business.
That the white-flag lengths of the women's procession on Saturday last looked like a gigantic washing day.
That the suspension of any L.G.O.C. service, even temporarily, now causes almost universal expressions of regret.
That the petrol tax has yielded £30,000 more for the first half-year than in 1914, and the carriage tax 245,000 less.
That it is to he remembered that the majority of the Germans in Arherica are there because they could not stand Germany.
That late deliveries of American trucks are being explained (?) by mysterious hints of the submarining of the steamships carrying them—steamships with unfamiliar names. That they are still " eating", cars and, lorries in Russia.
That starting-up is receiving special attention at A.S.C. instructional classes.
Various ill-informed rumours as to which lorries are doing well or badly at the Fronts.
That a three-ton Leyland, owned by a contractor , near Sevenoaks, is now driven daily by a girl.
Of marvellous self-starters of low weight for aeroplane equipment, from the Vandervell factory.
That the work of reconstructing war-scarred country will call for all the used lorries available Overseas.
That the A.S.C., M.T.' encampment at Grove Park was recently enlarged by the arrival of a travelling fair.
That the manufacturers of Kruschen salts appear to think that M.T. drivers in Flanders do work in the trenches.
That to ensure punctuality in the I.B.M.T. Department, offenders are condemned to "stay behind and write lines," and that slight offences are punished . by "standing in the corner"