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From "Safety News " that a wrecked ambulance picks up no patients.
The suggestion that the mass attack of sickness at the Ministirk of War Transp'ort was due to its having bitten off more than it could chew.
That this year is setting up new records in the use of tractors and motor-hauled harvesting machines in the agricultural industry of Great Britain. '
Of engineers tributes to the makers of vehicle oil engines for the many improvements they have effected in such power units during recent years.
From Councillor A. V. Nicholls, .01 Brighton, of transport drivers "'who went nearly 60 ft. into the earth to dig up a German Messerschmitt aeroplane."
Of a carrier removing furniture from blitzed to safe areas, who often experiences difficulty in obtaining petrol, even when the case is so urgent that the local authority is paying half the cost.
That a boring machine is not needed in many clubs—most have their own well-polished bores.
That, according to some prophets, the Nazis sltould have exhausted their liquid-fuel supplies many months ago. 0
That it is probable, .howet,er, that Germany has almost exhausted alternalive-fuel, possibilities, whereas we are little farther than commencing on
them. 0 That our Assistant Editor, Par. W. A. E. Vacher, claims to have been the model for the head protruding from "The-Commercial Motor" van pictured last week.
Tliat the extent to which industry and business in Australia are dependent on road transport is indicated by the fact that there is one truck or van in use in the Commonwealth for every 2.55'cars registered.
That this is a better record than Anierica can claim, the ratio of cars to commercial vehicles in the United States being approximately 6 to 1.
That the .Petrol Pool is no bottomless pit.
Take care of the roads and the tyres will take care of themselves.
That the three-days-a,-week bread-delivery
plan is a great step in petrol saving. • That a "deal-with-your-nearest-baker" order might be unpcipular, but wise.
That .a driver is always expected to " know
his onions "—even if he cannot find any. That there may be a scarcity of • bottles, but there seems no shortage of broken ones on the roads.
',From Eire, where they have partnerships in lorries, of a man with a one-shilling share being finedcv'ith the rest of his partners for a technical offence.