One Hears
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" New lighting in force? I call it feeble."
Of many " unhonoured and unsung'? heroes among L.P.T.B. employees.
Of many who feel that it is time road transport did a little bombing, instead of staying on the fighter plane.
That no one seeing (and hearing) London's A.R.P. services at work could doubt the value of mechanized road transport.
Of many who hold that " hardenability " is a good word, and that even if it never came out of the • dictionary, it ought to go into it.
That temporary detours resulting from debris, etc., have made many Londoners .conscious of the fact that alternative routes present numerous features of interest.
That proof is something that cannot be shaken.
• _o__ From the head lamp—" Well, I'll be dimmed."
That Pool petrol is not too popular for cigarette lighters.
Of one driver confessing that having carefully cut out the owl calendar he was owl enough to lose it.
That the U.S.A. has 3,500,000 trained " trucking" men and 4,500,000 lorries operating over 137,000 miles of good roads.
The suggestion that bomb craters might be bridged while the essential work of 'repairing communications and filling them is being carried out.
That "delivered the same day" is the key to road haulage satisfaction.
That fleet owners find REDEX also means REDuced EXpenses.
That in the Lancashire and Cheshire bus pool all promises to go swimmingly.
That the drab exteriors of Army vehicles hide many a Skylark, Blue Belle, etc., names familiar to erstwhile pleasure seekers.
Of someone who files this journal remarking on the amount of information, re prophecy and fulfilment, that can be obtained from re-reading even one year's "One Hears."