One Hears
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Of some who need goading to speed their loading.
That we must save everything to save democracy— which is everything.
That the Carmo advertisement reminds us of the film entitled "Tall, Dark and Handsome."
That the many and varying estimates of Germany's fuel reserves should be treated with reserve.
Someone saying that present-day Army training will lead to a glut of mechanics after the war.
That, in consequence, many a vehicle will spend its time being taken to pieces for the love of doing it.
Of the coming of official roadside cafés to provide long-distance drivers with food and accommodation.
Of people who consider that there are still too many different types of commercial motor being produced.
Of one American concern with no fewer than 112 different chassis and body designs and vehicles of 18 different wheelbases. Of new uses for tractors in harvesting sugar beet.
Of a new soft-cdtre steel called Celfor, which case hardens by quenching without carburizing. '
'Of single-deckers with increased standing accommodation described, with little cause, as death traps.
Of engineers who consider that two-stroke-cycle working, hot)a for oil and petrol engines, will become more general in the future.
Of claims that the two-stroke principle constitutes the simplest method of improving power output for a given weight of mechanism.
Of an American Army vehicle, known as the . • " mechanized cow," which permits up to .10 motors to be refuelled simultaneously.
Of someone rentarking that the huge tin of Cadbury's cocoa, shown in an advertisement, being.' loaded on to a Commer made his mouth water.
Of possibilities that the day may come when trolleybus operation will be revolutionized by wireless transmission of electric power to the vehicles.
Of a call for. closer relationship between, chassis and bodies.
That advertisements to discourage buying do seem somewhat startling. —c—
That "farthing has ceased to be a way of life and has turned info a business."
Of a driver saying that to ensure a quick turnround there's nothing to beat a skid.
That the most difficult road to drive' on at night is a kerbless country one that is wet in patches.
Of highways considered as conveyor belts to transport materials and men in the national defence.