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" It don't seem a day too much "--40 years!
Suggestions that a curfew for children would save many road accidents.
Of a recent case in a country town where a boy • of eight was injured at 10 p.m.
That the average wages of male manual workers are now 80 per cent. above those at October, 1938.
• That British-produced magnesium alloys will be in ample supply at competitive prices in post-war days.
That fully 500,000 heavy military motor vehicles have been produced in this country since the start of the war.
That the number of Tanks turned out so far is ever 25,000.
That proposals made in 1895 by Mr. H. W. Skelton, a London steel merchant, were the basis of the British Standards Institution.
That modern scientific welding can "raise a component from the dead" and but for Barimar and others we'd bury more. Thai the Athericans recently captured Rubernak.
That their familiar expression will now presumably be spelt " rubernaking."
That the majority of bus accidents occurs on the mounting step.
That it is for this reason widespread interest is being taken in Blackpool's special side-entrance buses with closing doors.
Of much useful war work being done by commercial-motor firms in Scotland.
From New South Wales of over 150 lorries, cabs and cars being run there on methane.
That some go even farther than the law and think every pedestrian should have a rear light or wear a white patch. 0
That W. P. Butterfield, Ltd., has supplied over. 4,000 self-contained aircraft refuelling tanks for fitting to commercial-vehicle chassis.
That a cyclist can take a backward glance at his rear light while riding, but the van driver does not know his is out until stopped by the police.
That many feel it is too early to begin fooling with That some erstwhile good roads have become war casualties.
That many a pre-war motor driver has become a -cyclist willy-nilly.
A complaint that twoway tipping seems the only_ way to get service in scene places.