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That the small haulier is as important as any other mickle that main a muckle.
That "full steam ahead" may have a more pertinent meaning in the realms of future road transport.
The remark that those who would rise with the sun and sleep when it is dusk must go by the calendar and not by the light of winter days. Of some important oil-engine developments that should help the " produce-more-food " campaign.
• Many expressions of good will towards our latest Minister of Transport—Lieut-Col. J. T. C. DelooreBrabazon.
That one of his tasks must be the unravelling of much of the web of restriction thrown. around road transport during past years.
Of ambulance-service personnel being seriously and perhaps unwisely depleted by the calling up of the latest age groups.
That the availability of shipping space is the main problem affecting the importation of commercial vehicles for civilian operators in this country.
That shipping is almost certain to be at a premium for some years after this war, so we must depend increasingly on home production in many spheres.
That creosote is a most difficult fuel with which to dead because of the variations in quality and properties between the products of different supplies of coal.
The suggestion that there might be some sort -of arrangement whereby vehicles laid up for want of spares could be pooled as a source of spares for others.
Complaints from, technicians in the Army—even some in the R.A.O.C.—that they are being employed on trivial work and might be of more value producing or maintaining ordinary road-transport vehicles.
That "sorting out" is being carried on now in many sections of the Army, but the R.A.O.C. is specifically excluded.