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"Don't bludgeon the gudgeon."
"Hush! Hush! If you cry you may not be nationalized."
That housey-housey" should be a good game for road hauliers after the war.
That the American Ford company's assets are listed at nearly £180,000,000.
Of American prophesies that the rubber shortage trouble may be overcome by the autumn of 1944.
That in the meantime greater efforts in the way of tyre and rubber economy are necessary.
That traffic jam is no longer available, but will be plentiful later if we don't get those better highways.
Of reports that 42 per cent, of the potato crop in Germany is being used for the production of motor spirit..
That the promoter of a race for producer-gas cars in Brazil, in which ,22 entrants competed, described the event as "a sportsmen's handicap." That A.R.O. has begotten 'a row.
That we need a strong pull and a long (:sighted) pull all together.
Of the haulier who said that his business now was not worth a "mess of potage."
That an enthusiastic reader, " C.C.M.," says 'that he is lost if he does not see " C.M." • That certain certain councils make a great outcry against waste of fuel, yet fail to enforce its economy by their own officials.
Of hopes that although the progress of the, producergas motor vehicle may seem to be slow, it will soon prove itself to be sure.
That many in the road transport world have an uneasy feeling that the railways will be allowed to call the tune after the war.
That the old who remember the days without the motor are less bothered by the lack of it than the . young, to whom it seems a sine qua non.
Of 'a reader who thinks it better always to be well oiled.
." If you want jam on your cake don't jam on your brake.", That keeping a log is not proverbially easy, like falling off one.
That fitting a driver to his vehicle is almost as important as fitting a bearing.
From "Motor Digest," Melbourne, that a pedestrian is a dash between two dotted lines.