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Of a shortage of salesmen of the right calibre. That some will and others won't use the agent.
Of Huns who want to get back into the tyre trade.
That the 44-hour week is an all-round coming event. • That "after all I suppose he could afFord to retire."
Who makes spares for Hun machines now in this
country
Of thirty gallons of good benzole for twenty gallons of—well, petrol.
That the industry will want all the protection it can get at home, let alone abroad.
That there will certainly be enough four-tonners on offer one way and another for a little while.
That reconstruction work inBelgium will detain the W.D. lorries there ;till they are worn out.
That the " poor " motorist with only an open car regards the month's motoring freedom as a sop to the plutocrat.
That commercial aeroplaaaing has been postponed officially until the Government can discover how to control it.
That pneumatic tyres are going to be used widely in the future for heavy loads, and particularly for passenger services.
That nationalization of motor haulage services is already in the air, and that an attempt will be made to dispose of the returned Army lorry problem in that way. Of not a few swelled beads.
That it will be months before Londoners see the new bus in their streets.
That the code word to-day is liquidation, but that it has nothing to do with food.
Of munition girls in fur coats selling matches at the roadside rather than work I
That Dennis's "rotation method of delivery" necessarily implies a worm drive.
That it's no good registering' at the Labour Exchanges for those Westminster jobs at £400 a, year.
Public explanations at length from various Government departments as to why it is necessary for them to be perpetuated.
That not every munition girl will continue to be able to lay down the law as to what class of work she will and she won't do.
That brewers are uncertain buyers of transport at the moment, as they don't know how much they are going to be allowed to carry.
That there are plenty of engines about now, but that those for Tanks are too heavy and those for 'planes are too light for our purpose.
That it's little good for the user to hang around on the chance of picking up lorries direct from the Army, but that in the end they'll be repaired and disposed of again by thefr,makers.