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That we must be on our toes or other people will be.
That Ribble trainee-drivers receive road safety lessons in police patrol cars.
That mobile policemen act often enough as road safety teachers in the course of their duties.
That any return of liquid-fuel rationing would dishearten the whole Nation That the G.P.O.'s mobile post offices, first used experimentally about 15 years ago, will have a long summer season.
That, by closing more uneconomical branch lines, the railways could change our millstone into a milestone an the way to progress.
From Mr. R. Gresham Cooke that to buy a given quantity of food the average Australian must work 56 mins. and our men 83 mins, That the use of unsuitable lubricant in wheel hubs may result in greasy brakes with much-reduced and serjously unbalanced retardation power. That many a trailer could have been made more attractive That Jack Hulbert was " statically " shocked by a cab-door handle a few days ago.
That this was an unexpected increase to the new normal charge.
That many motor vehicles become slightly charged with static electricity when dry tyres act as insulators —the cause may even be friction resulting from the impact of dust and grit
The advice: "Don't over-speed or overload when the running-in period is just running out."
That the tendency towards bigger engines may be lessened by the impact of fuel-price increases From a traveller that, judging by the incorrect information sometimes given by officials, the uniformed can prove themselves uninformed.
That there are still die-hards who hate any innovation simply because it is a change, just as there are many who will give almost any change an ovation.