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That the R.H.E. has the odd spot in Belfast.
That the Government quota for overseas may leave the industry all at sea.
Of bail bearings in. a Swiss wrist watch, each ball having a diameter of 0.02 in That the Government is so busy with British Road Services that it has little time to bother about British road surfaces.
That the Road Transport Executive ordered personnel of the Red and White Bus Co., Ltd., to be shaved in preparation• for a recent inspection.
That many drivers have close shaves without orders to that effect. _ That the-man-in-the-street, having so often to be the man-in-the-bus, should take a more intelligent interest in passenger-transport nationalization's threat to his pocket. Of bright-eyed fish by road and dead-eyed by rail.
That the true gentleman of the road is the highway-code man.
That too many take more pride in their pay packet than in their work.
That " Cornering forces" are a particularly important factor in tyre wear.
That they rise rapidly with excessive road camber and high speed at turns.
That under nationalization there's still "a Guy for every load," but whether there's a load for every " guy 'S is very doubtful.
That natural rubber is an unsaturated hydrocarbon, one in every four carbon-carbon links along the main molecular chain being a double one.
Of the appearance of G.P.O. vans being deplored in the House of Commons.
That many hauliers still feel that they are to be intimidated, humiliated and eliminated.
A reader saying that a halfpenny-fare ticket ought to be preserved in a museum as a strange relic of days that will never return.
That the car shortage has driven many people to the bus, but a bus shortage simply drives them to the cycle, because the railways are not capableof deputizing.
That the old advice, "He that knows not and knows not thalhe knows not is a fool, shun him," should be remembered by the electorate during, the next big " occasion."