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8th September 1944
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Brrrr, whoosh, bang—but not so frequently.

That air-cooled engines for post-war vehicles present possibilities.

That experience with aircraft and Tank engines shows their improved practicability.

Of someone inquiring whether Pressimus Smith was the first Editor ot "The Commercial Motor."

Of great potential employment in building motor vehicles or prefabricated steel houses for the unemployed.

That both car bodies and such houses use 20-gauge steel sheet, which may be in short supply.

That Germany is becoming so short of essentials that there may soon be a dearth of castor-oil for those who disagree with the Nazi policy.

That the ingeased compression permissible with high-octane fuels will reduce .heat losses and permit the use of smaller and lighter radiators.

Loud praise of tractors, both Army and farming.

Of' a single-plunger injection pump for multicylindered oil engines.

That the metered fuel passes to a distributor with cam-operated valves.

That U.S. invasion vehicles were waterproofed by Britain as reverse lend-lease.

That the sheet steel employed would have been sufficient for a bridge 150 ft. wide between Dover and Calais, and absorbed our output for three months.

That to 'move the finished sets from factories tO hundreds of ordnance depots took a huge fleet of lorries working night and day.

That hauliers may see the red light, but that does not mean they are going to turn tail and show one themselves.

That Firestone uses ." flash devukanization " by high-pressure steam to make rubber scrap a more valuable material. .

That preparations are now well in hand for the restarting of post-war commercial-vehicle production by several of the large manufacturers.

From Mr. Robert Boothby, M.P., that the solution of the post-war economic problem will be the expansion of demand, not the contraction of supply.

That on some neglected concrete roads the site of the bitumen seam is now a groove about 14 ins, wide and constitutes a danger to cyclists in the dark.

Of a statement that owing to the arduous conditions the useful life of a military motor truck in the desert warfare in North Africa was never more than three months. ,

That C.S.M. Stanley Hollis, of the Green Howards, who was recently awarded the Victoria Cross, was an1 employee of the Middlesbrough Transport and Engineering Co., Ltd., a Northern Area member of A.R.O.

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Organisations: A.R.O., Northern Area

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