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Use only greasy paper to light your fires.
That a gas-fired poker or a paraffin-soaked patent lighter will eke this out or remove the need for any combustible other than the coal or coke.
That in some countries tyre retreading is known as recapping.
Champion sparking plugs. highly praised by producer-gas enthusiast.
That, according to one expfrt, paraffin should cever be used to clean ball or roller bearings.
That the most suitable cleaning liquid is a mixture of eight parts of petrol to one of good machine oil.
That, for lack of direction signs, we may have to find our way by compass on the stormy main roads.
That many drivers feel all at sea-on them anyway.
That more than 150 pleasure coaches have been transferred from London to other regions, such as the Midland industrial centres, to meet urgent traffic needs. Of Redex as an antidote to creosote troubles.
That there are none so blind as tliose who can't be = seen.
That it took a collision to conVince a man Rding an unlighted bicycle and leading a black pony that he was invisible on a country road at 6 a.m.
That a truc4 with Hitler would be a "peace " to end all peace.
That "stirrup pump available "--is not always synonymous withstirrup pump infallible.
That we may yet return to the old flint and steel as a". means for ignition—but not on motor vehicles.
That by filtering your used oil you will save shipping and, incidentally, a good deal of your own expenditute: That garage owners in Australia are being urged to take up the sale of charcoal suftable for gas-producerequipped motor vehicles.
Of four Maudslay bits of advice to comme'rcialmotor users—drive carefully, service regularly, load sensibly, and attend to minor troubles before they. develop into big ones.
That regular workers can travel with their MA and FA.
That " Tilling " has always stood .for breaking fresh ground.
That "the brakes failed" is an excuse one now seldom hears.
That few engines have been designed to run on alcohol and soon few people will be able to do so.
Of snow-white roads at Denver (U.S.A.) which are no fairy tale, but designed to help the night driver. 0 From a kind reader that the "C.M.," although thinner, is still full of "meat" and food for thought.