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That agricultural tractors need not ■ now be immobilized.
That either a charge by a tractor brigade does not appear to be feasible or the enemy could usefully employ them to dig in their own casualties.
General appreciation of last week's " Tantalus " article with its personnel touch.
That the road manners of some of the more youthful Army transport drivers still leave much to be desired.
Views that this time there will be no great after-war slump—in fact, rather the reverse in the road-transport field.
That the war-period waste-salvaging experiences are likely to have their effect in post-war dust-collecting vehicles and operations.
That, even in a small town, one vehicle is insufficient for all U.D.C. requirements and that the policy of "doing without" does not make for economy in the end. The suggestion that the insignia of the quicker-turnround campaigners should be a kitten chasing its tail.
That this may seem a frivolous emblem, but it would stand for the underlying purpose of the scheme —to make ends meet.
Still of unpatriotic contractors who take full advantage of the loopholes for dishonesty offered by work on the cost-plus basis.
That it is admittedly impossible to give an estimate for demolition work., The remark that paraffin, like paper, has to be imported and that fires with very close bars will not take a paraffin "lighter."
That the road transport industry must be like Browning's "One who ever marched breast forward. never doubting clouds would break."
Of Parliamentary complaints of reluctance of owners of road-transport vehicles in this country to adapt producer-gas equipments to their machines.
Of many comments on lack of interest of our military authorities in any substitute fuel.
That some conductorettes are rather quick at the "ring off" —perhaps they prefer to be chased.
That, judging by the number of lorry thefts, he •that takes.what isn't his runs a profitable z.
That the oil engine has more -than one heart, of which the most important is the fuel-injection pump.
That in the A.T.S. women capable of tackling the training of drivers are being invited to take up the-work.