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That bus-stop laybys are too often invaded by unauthorized parkers.
Of many hauliers fearing that Liberal vote-splitting may result in their businesses being handed to Labour on a plate.
That the American Firestone tyre company have added two factories to their production network, one at Havana, Cuba, the other at Manila, in the Philippines.
That both will produce tyres for cars and commercial vehicles, and the first also for earth-moving and other heavy machines.
That despite the statement by Mr. Robens that Labour's plans for renationalizing steel have nothing to do with its present efficiency, many feel that another change would sadly impair it. That half a load may, in the long run, be little better than no bread.
That a recent invention of expanding suits for growing boys might be followed by expanding vehicles for growing loads.
That a 17-year-old-girl has passed the driving test in her 1908 Renault, but no would-be haerlier seems to have thought of applying for his in a lorry of the same vintage.
That a Newcastle double-deck bus was once used as a tire engine—it was backed up to a burning house and a trapped woman scrambled through the upper-deck emergency "exit."
That the Firemen's Union did not " black " the bus driver.
That Britain now has about 7.1m, motor vehicles.
That these give a density of 36.6 vehicles per mile of road—the highest in the World.
That Polypac is not a new film star, but a range of oilfield rubber devices such as gland packings.
That the barbers' union may protest at the provision of free or slot electric shavers at coach or bus stations.
That they appear to be poles apart.
That it pays every commercial-vehicle user to be thoroughly conversant with the licensing and other laws pertaining to road transport. _ That a regular study of this journal may save them from many pitfalls.