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That vehicle and other examiners may _sometimes need examining.
That buyers in wide-open spaces need trucksthat don't play tricks on treks.
That the Belfast Telegraph is to award a prize to Belfast's most courteous conductor.
Of a user who claims a regular 50 m.p.g, on a Trojan Perkins-engined one-tonner.
That a typical oil well takes 76 men 40 days to drill to an average of 5,000 ft. and costs £25,715.
That last year 43,000 wells were drilled in the U.S.A. alone.
That at least the Minister of Transport does believe in the value of a 30 m.p.h. limit for heavy vehicles.
That being so, who is the nigger in the woodpile?
That the pigeon recently found walking home along a main road must have had the wrong carrier's licence.
That Mr. D. M. Sinclair,-C_B.E., of "Midland Red," is now said to show inclinations towards a nautical roll. — That the U.S. Post Office Department is to issue a commemOrative stamp during the American Trucking Association's Convention in October, to Mark the 50th anniversary of the country's road haulage industry. Of a " breathless " 20-line sentence in a motor trade paper.
Of housewives sitting up and taking notice of Teepol's claims.
That the Deer Botfly is said to be capable of flying at 818 m.p.h.
The query: "Does it cause a double bang?"
Of two pieces of metal being welded "into an inseparable homogeneous whole."
That this indicates the unlikelihood of any parting between them.
That there is wisdom in the Higgs practice of making reconditioning conditional.
That if the demand for space is a real indicator, the Scottish Show in November should be a great success.
That reduced maintenance is having much the same effect on roads as has the death-watch beetle in churches.
That if Your child .should ask "What is meant by disintegration?" you could show him the surfaces of many roads in Britain..
Expressions of goodwill to Mr. T. H. Oakley who recently retired from the Rootes Group, his connection with which came about later as a result of joining Commer Cars over 40 years ago.