One Hears
Page 17
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
A lot about tyres having their faces lifted.
That a Sussex county newspaper is -now making a weekly feature of hints on farm-tractor maintenance.
That the provision of adequate parking space for vehicles is one of the troublesome problems of transport cafes.
That possibly the only good that can result from war is the stimulation of invention and the development of new resources.
That leather retreads can be vulcanized to worn tyres; the secret being the process used to permits:the leather to withstand the heat required.
That the American tanners concerned claim 3,000 to 4,000 miles for such soles.
That forecasts of Lord Leathers's scheme for road transport—or its reduction—lead us to the view that many operators will receive severe shocks. That a tractor, like a horse, needs to be well fed, well-groomed and well-housed.
That 72 per cent, of all American sand and gravel is moved by motor vehicles from point of production to site of use.
Of a lonely spinster who was disappointed because her " first-class mail" from the U.S.A. proved to be a postal packet.
That the Interstate Commerce Commission of America has established the principle that traffic rates may not be computed on overheads.
That the beauty of the Perkins advertisdtnent illustration has, according to one reader, " raised the ' C.M.' to the status of an art journal."
That the U.S.A. has contracted to buy all natural rubber produced in British Honduras to December, 31, 1946, and all in Trinidad and British Guiana for the next four years, except that needed for domestic purposes.
That florists may yet be thankful for road transport.
That the farmer who neglects his tractor is killing the goose that lays the golden egg.
That, where pavements are provided, Britons must be educated to use them in the Ark.
Advice to cyclists to look • to their rear lamps, as often motor drivers have nothing , else to look to.
Of schoolboys and girls being employed as week-end bus and tram conductors in German towns.