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That the vicious circle is still with us and higher wages all round wouldn't make it all square.
That Britain must produce the right goods for export at the right price. to right her home-produced wrongs.
That London Transport has fitted " television-interference suppressors to all its moo petrol-engined vehicles.
That many a mad who struck his blow for Britain in the war now regrettably strikes (for this and that) against her.
That some transport owners, by allowing themselves to be "over-run so quickly have given the B.T.C. a walk-over.
That now the Government owns the railways and canals, it should do something about the scandalous bridges on A5.
That organization is the secret of success in most undertakings, but certain "planners" have yet to learn this lesson. _ __ • That, although they seem to exist purely to annoy. there presumably is some reason for the many holes dug in our highways.
That from Bristol, home of our biggest commercial vehicle, the Brabazon, will shortly come One of our smallest, the Douglas Ape. Rumours from a reliable source, of a commercial version of the Bond Minicar, .
inquiries as to whether it will take the form of a five-seat taxi for use in crowded cities.
That heat-treating castings may make the tools used on them last far longer.
" That the production of one motor vehicle may require 12,000. tests with precision gauges.
That at Liverpool the loss on the trams is about 4d. per mile, and the profit. on the buses 2d.
From the chairman of the Grand Union Canal that .there is no satiSfactory substitute for privatir... enterprise in transport by sea, land. or air—and this will be discovered as time goes on.