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That oiler operators are Iteginning to crow over maintenance costs.
That to be successful in the road-transport business a fleet must be fleet That the "stop me and buy one" motto is now being translated into terms of furniture removals.
Of the dilemma of a driver who was offered £20 to carry a load of household goods about 40 miles.
That non-immobilized bicycles are almost, if not quite, as useful facilities for enemy parachutists as are motor vehicles in a similar condition.
That a secret master switch on a motor vehicle is not considered by the authorities to be an adequate means for immobilization unless it be operable only by an effective key such as the Yale.
That the police officers who deflated the tyres of a vehicle and then had to pump them up because the owner had made use of a concealed switch, may themselves have been let down. "Do not forget that 100 tons of new steel require 60 tons of scrap." 0 That the winning of this war requires the iron hand in the aluminium glove.
Of the suggestion that disused . buses and coaches should be utilized for housing seasonal farm workers.
That petrol rations are bound . to influente food rations, although a good many people refuse to see this.
Of a Northern garage selling 400 gallons weekly of a fuel (a 1-in-3 mixture), duty paid, but without coupons.
That some dealers and users, whilst glad to facilitate transport, wonder if they are really within the law in using it.
That if the question of men or women conductors were put to the vote among passengers the men would say "Fairs, please."
Of the growing feeling that the majority of our statues both in London and the provinces could be considered as "scrap" Of Britain as the fly in Hitler's ointment.
Of .a. load of furniture carried at 4s. 6d. a mile.
That many vehicle obsolescence figures will go by the board.
That this is the -Lillie for the
old crocks—in more meanings than That to buy or not to buy no longer rests wholly with the operator.
Of Mr. T. S. McDowall as a small bundle of (ill-) suppressed energy.