"Why not finish the job and chuck in the soapflakes?
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One Hears
"Steel scrap wanted? Well the. U.S.A. seems to be having more than it wants."
That numerous fines are making drivers realize that " Halt " signs are not mere ornaments.
That through them many a dangerous cross road has had its fangs drawn.
Of a serious shortage of engineers in the U.S.A.
That a minimum of 30,000 engineering graduates will be needed there annually during the next 10 years.
That the number available in 1951 was about 19,000 and the average is likely to be 17,000 from 1954. • That visitors to Triplex at the Commercial Motor Show will be lead up the garden path.
Not so frequently, but still too often, of accidents caused by loads shifting or falling off lorries.
That thanks to mechanized farming, the farmer of to-day can cope with an early harvest while carrying on with the normal work of the season.
That, contrary to one reader's assumption, a woodsandwich semi-trailer is not the vehicle used for supplying food to railway refreshment rooms. That there aae 10,214 buses registered in Canada and 212,583 in the United States.
Of someone wondering if Servais silencers would help the camel with the last straw.
Of night drivers remarking that fewer moths are "bashing into the lamps" this year.
Of an irate man saying that the driver who holds the crown of the road should be" crowned."
Of a new American Silicone product which is said to be the first to dissolve in water before polymerization.
Hopes expressed that no drivers suffered from shock when held up by Hull police—to be congratulated on their good road manners.
That a Brighton councillor wants all drivers who have their licences endorsed to carry an E plate on their vehicles for a month after conviction.