One Hears
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Of a new step—the dug-out crawl.
That a soft tyre does not turn away wrath.
That for rigid economy tyres should be kept at their maximum permissible pressure.
That at a general committee meeting of the Hull Area A.R.O. and C.M.U.A., £100 was raised in 10 minutes for the Spitfire Fund.
That garage foremen like a little more information when a lorry attendant says, "We'll be off in a minute: my driver is oiling-up." . . . Who or what is being oiled?
That a reader's wife had just remarked that a lowflying plane over her garden was "back-firing," when she had to throw herself down to dodge machine-gun fire from a Nazi rear gunner. Take heed and lock(heed) it.
Someone asking why the Cycling editor should imagine himself a motoring creditor.
That in point of fact, cycling is indebted to motoring for the good roads it uses.
Of a man who, having heard that the fuel for oil engines is carefully metered, asked where one inserted the money.
That it is a case of willing horse-power being driven to death so that the moribund railways may be galvanized into life.
Of a driver remarking that " the Germans have a cheek to call our raids brutal when they have bombed several pubs and a brewery."
That countless war-time constructional jobs would be held up, if employers did not provide, as they do, quick motor-lorry transport for workmen.
That it may not be " cushy " travel—but rapid transit without cushions is preferred to other more wearisome and delaying media.
That four motorists who were passing a delayedaction bomb as it exploded, probably owe their lives to laminated safety glass.
The complaint "When the newspapers are held up we still have the broadcast bulletin, but when the " C.M." doesn't get through we are in the soup."
That, although we are constantly urged to waste
no food crops, plums Kent (and elsewhere) are rotting under the trees for lack of reasonable transport facilities.
That bus services prove an elastic boon in some places when air raids upset schedules, but certain railways do not extend facilities for stranded people. No, their time-tables are rigid and officials' sympathy frigid.