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That the greaser must go.
That Thornycroft's have started a school for their apprentices.
That a good many others might follow their example.
That the parent firm does not, however, always reap the benefit from their benevolent edudational schemes, owing to the migratory instincts of the budding engineer.
That modern motor salesmanship is largely Autosuggestion.
That people simply will not-re.alize the importance of proper Iubrieation, That they waste an enormous amount of money by this neglect, and the repairer and the spare part merchant reap the benefit.
Of silent machine shops, in which the ghost-of restricted output roams at will.
That now is the time for plant repairs and for ll'orks reorganization.
Of a Dennis worm and wheel which have run for • 340 000 miles, and are still going strong.
That designers Might spend a few profitable halfhours in careful study of the problem of brake design.
That it takes a brainy man to design a thing; that it takes a clever man to make it but that it takes a genius to sell it.
Of one thing which the. salesman must know most about, and which he often knows least—the possibilities of the product that he sells.
That it is almost equally important also to know its limitations.
That the only non-militant concerns during the war were the sales organizations, and many of them have not since recovered their pristine punch.
That though production may be a, problem, selling is a science, and that the power of placing piecegoods is not necessarily a qualification for off-loading lorries.
That, for prolific parents, some Motor manufacturers are singularly improvident as regards placing their products out in the world and assuring them a future.
How the old order changeth: The first problem was how to design; the next how' to produce. Both have been solved : We must now seek the solution of the selling problem.
That contracting for tractor cultivation is all very well when the weather is favourable, but that a side line to provide occupation during the " off " days is really essential.
That the war caused a great re-shuffling of the rersonality cards in the motor industry pack, but that it was as nothingcompared with the re-shuffle which we are likely soon to see. Too little of "Dumping Depots" for back loads.
That radiators give less trouble after they arc hanged.
It's to be SOME shuffle of cards, and woe be to him who revokes.
That a precursor is out of all-metal fan and pumpdriving belts.
That the success of colic:KHz,' fuel depends upon its qualities of suspense.
That the Minister has gone into transports over the Severn barrage scheme.
That supplies of cheap electric current in the western counties should give an impetus to -electrio road traction.
That Islington isn't a •bit like Brighton, though a compositor seemed tO think so.
That perhaps his girl lives in. Islington, and that brightens it for him.
That the repairs department is keeping many a factmy fire burrfing just now.
The possibility of big moves ahead regarding internal-electric transportation.
That-no user's trouble is too snaall or too great to claim the attention of the C.M.I.T.A.
That a worm with four starts is a match for a wheel with 60 teeth and a lead any day.
A complaint from an oil lamp that, in this dark weather, there's no rest for the wicked.
Of Parliamentary phraseology which frays the temper and gives rise to much unparliamentary language.
That the application of the " imiflow " steamengine to lorries should revolutionize road transport.
That mass production may yet be applied to the making of standard charging-plugs for the kingdom's eleetrics.
That the present state of the industry is reflected in Malaya, where they are only tapping for rubber alternate days.
That, when the proposed Government Coatings Department is started, there will be such a lot of " home-work " to begin on.
From the Midlands, that certain railway claisas (goods damaged in transit) officials are becoming extremely polite and inquire anxiously concerning their ex-clients' change-over to lorry freightage.
That " Inspector," in his scathing remarks on the undesirable cobblers who have forsaken their lasts for the lure of the lorry, omitted to mention the bookmaker's clerk—a type which figures largely.