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That there will be a big clean-up at Amsterdam.
That the Government has nationalized the coal shortage.
Of " de-foamers " being used in some lubricants for oil engines.
That these act by increasing the surface tension.
That the N.F.S. will not revert to as many scattered units as before the war.
Of a driver in a Downland district saying that he never again wants to see an iced cake.
That out of 700 suggestions received from Fort Dunlop workers last year, more than 500 were granted awards. The coal situation summed up as "bungle v. bunker."
That " Terminus " was the Roman god of land marks. _ That "Britain can't bake it "—at least, only with difficulty.
That parcels may now be sent to all Europe except the Dodecanese Islands.
That the G.W.R. has been running motorbus services for nearly 44 years.
Of a Birmingham man's plans to run a bus service from England to the Cape.
That the use of more mechanized road transport is being urged for the brick-making industry.
On the authority of an expert that bricks travel best by road That Steyr is producing in Austria 120 3-tonners monthly and developing a 28 h.p. tractor.
That there will be sufficient fuel to meet the maximum practicable coal-to-oil conversion. programme.
That many Ward lathes are helping to produce Hotchkiss commercial chassis and agricultural tractors.
That the coal-famine has given a much-needed impetus to the speed of both road and rail coal transport.
That taking the output in 1945 at 100 per cent., last year's production of motor trucks in Soviet Russia totalled 138 per cent., and of buses 118 per cent.