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That we'll get more spare parts when we have more spare ports.
That every U.S. bomber and fighter embodies, on the average, half a ton of magnesium.
That there is room for both road and rail transport provided they both use their elbows fairly.
Of someone expressing the opinion that our industry already knows too much about "inspection by interference methods."
Of a new Shell (U.S.A.) oil which combines the merits of a water-soluble variety with the qualifiee of a heavy-duty cutting medium.
That a shot-blast appliance is not, as one woman reader thought, "a thing that saves you trouble by doing your swearing for you."
That, with so many civilian drivers lacking mechanical skill, there is an increase in the number of "bits and pieces" shed on the roads. Of those whose speciality seems to be meddling and muddling. 0 Of a reader saying that when no flying bombs come over he misses them.
That they have obviously missed him.
Of a special head light for tractors having lately been introduced in Australia.
That it has a circular 16-gauge steel body measuring 8 ins, in diameter by 5 ins, in depth.
Of suggestions for radical changes in the post-war design of many commercial vehicles.
That it is in the direction of reduced tare weight for equal-load-carrying capacity that attention is being mainly devoted.
That road-haulage workers for whom a statutory rate of pay has been fixed and who are entitled to a week's.holiday on pay, must take it.
That the U.S.A. has 3,700,000 drivers of lorries.
Of arc-welding described as America's greatest natural resource.
That a wheel only half an inch out of alignment is dragged 87 ft: each mile.
Of many motor-propelled cookhouses doing good work for the invasion forces in France.
Of those who think tha' trams should be "per petuated " solely a museum specimens.