One Hears
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Of many lorries with valuable loads being stolen.
That some drivers treat loads worth many thousands of pounds as if they were chicken feed.
That pessimists may say that the .cinema is dying, but good industrial films seem very much, alive.
Of a suggestion that the use of gas and electric fires and cookers may increase litter, because less paper is used for lighting fires That it is the Shell can that mother never carries now.
That a black outlook after :snow can raise a driver's
spirits. — -
That the legendary men who flew with wax wings would now have consulted Dunlops.
That 85 employees of Goodyear at Wolverhampton completed 2,460 years of service by the end of January.
That of these 72 had completed 30 years, eight had 25 years to their credit and five 20 years.
That George Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd., have bought the machine tool plant at the works of Crossley Motors, Southport.
No news of the result of the Kentish experiments with snow fences in fields to prevent drifts from reaching and blocking roads.
That our January blizzard would have been ideal for the testing of their efficacy.
That A. E. Farr, Ltd., Westbury, members of the heavy haulage group of the Road Haulage Association, are to build the Queenhill Bridge, part of the Ross spur motorway.
From a reader that he knows of no modern motor vehicles apparently so noisy as those used in recordings for B.B.C. plays to mark the arrival or departure of characters in them.