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That Norwich is justly proud of having gone through last year without one child being killed on its roads. _ --.).___ That the thousands of brains now solving road transport problems are to be replaced by a small
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That many American States are planning toll. 1ina need highways That America produced over 800,000 tons of sothetic rubber in 1945.
That the maximum made in Germany was 110,000 tons in 1943.
That motor-vehicle camouflage started 50 years ago in Pennsylvania. _ That when horses approached, motors had to be covered with canvas sheets the colour of the landscape.
That Norway needs annually for five years 700 buses, 800 taxicabs, 6,000 lorries, and some 50 fireengines.
That Mr. W. Astin, recently appointed general manager of Colchester transport, is an 1.R.T.E associate.
That prospects of earlier and more plentiful deliveries of new commercial vehicles are at present not too bright.
From a letter in " The Times" of a "pullabletippable " speed.
The query: "Why not pulluppable '7" Of someone wondering whether the Transport Commission would allow vehicle manufacturers to tix their own prices.
Of another asking what wages railways porters will demand when, as Government servants, they are debarred from accepting tips That nowadays any municipality should be ashamed to own a stretch of road with a surface famous as a trying-out place for non-skid devices.