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Expressions of approval of flashing direction signals.
That a particle of micron size is 0.00004-in, in diameter.
That Dunlops employ a total of 93,000 people of many nationalities at home and abroad.
That no "British" Communist should be in a position to threaten the industrial peace of this country. That 13,000 Perkins engines are operating in India in various capacities.
That Bombay State Transport alone uses 3,000 in its vehicles.
That it should be easy to discover whether a particular coach service is run at a profit or a toss.
That one operator's profit, however, may be another's loss. 0 That Shell I.C.A. will reduce petrol consumption if the former condition of an engine caused preignition.
That the 600 Group is to form a company— George Cohen Sinteel Ltd.—to develop powder metallurgy.
That with fog plus icing conditions, roads come into the category of things you can't trust farther than you can see them—if as far.
That those who clamour for new roads and by-passes frequently fall silent or protest if improvements are to encroach on land owned by them.
How the telephone wires of a U.D.C. surveyor were in danger of burning out when a long hill on a main route through the town was not sanded on an icy morning.
That " Pop " Crane of Cranes (Dereham), Ltd., was in fine form at his cocktail party held in London last week which was attended by many personalities in road transport.
Of a cynic writing to the Daily Telegraph: "... Londoners arc being choked to death by the fumes of vehicles which cannot fulfil their functions of getting passengers from Point A to Point B."