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That " revivifying " solutions for batteries should be treated with great caution.
That according to battery makers nothing better than the original electrolytes has been discovered.
That the " tramp" class of haulier is known in the U.S.A. as the "wildcat " or "skimmer."
That aluminium ingots may closely resemble rolls or loaves of bread—anyway, both are essential to the war effort.
Of considerable difficulties in adjusting fares and stages when increases in bus passenger-travel prices have to be arranged.
That it is the penny stage which will cause the most burning of black-out oil—the question whether people will or will not prefer to walk.
That hundreds of tons of good-quality paper and mill-board are virtually wasted in wrapping biscuit& cigarettes, and numerous other commodities_ Of gas-balloon vehicles alluded to as "flying bedsteads "—the title applied to early Fords.
That, anyway, they help to "bolster up" our fuel supply.
Of a reader who would like " half-timbered " buses for Chester to avoid the clash of ancient and modern styles.
That the Rytecraft marker will save the backbreak (and heart-break) of white-lining miles of road with a paint brush.
That Lloyd Boards, Ltd., in its (mis)uSe of Goebbels propaganda, has struck a new and humorous note in publicity.
That in Russia Epsom salts (magnesium sulphate) are being used as a source of magnesium metal— perhaps this explains the frequent purges.
That in the road-transport-minded M.P.s we are fortunate, for most of them know what they are talking about, being genuine road users.
That, even if yipu have a mixed licence, you shouldn't mix your drinks.
That those who have "The Tables leare not likely to have the tables turned on them.
That there is no harm—in fact, quite the contrary—in seeing red, if it's a Midland Red.
That, via the vicious circle and the vicious spiral, we may proceed to the vicious kaleidoscope.
That ploughing against time this season has made tractors more than usually farmer-attractors.•
Re roads, that some are already, under stress of war traffic, becoming futurist and cubist in design.