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" Where do all the lost tyre-valve caps go?"
That good as they are, valve cores should not be required to bear all the heat and pressure of the day.
That the recent heading "Wages for Mate" did not mean pay for housewifely duties.
A suggestion that our advice to watch for wrongly sited signs will give a fillip to the sale of measuring tapes.
That it certainly showed how the man in the street can sometimes take measures for his vindication when wrongfully accused.
That " fixing " wages is just a hopeful way of describing temporary measures.
Of a swan breaking the windscreen of a London Transport bus on Richmond Bridge.
That it was merely trying to play its signature tune.
That up to 1951 the total volume of petroleum extracted represented about 1.6 miles cubed.
That a bus driver, cleared at Derby of careless driving, put in the court poor-box for "a fair trial."
That the use of plastic-bound glass wool for commercial-vehicle panels, cab fronts and other parts will increase rapidly.
That they are light, strong. tough and can be invisibly repaired in a few hours; even if holed. That plastic panels are going ahead behind buses.
That "seat conversions in a day" seemed to one reader like a miracle performed by party propaganda. —O-- That the 300 inhabitants of Stansted, on the North Downs, when refused a bus service by London Transport, asked for a stage-coach.
That, given such a coach, horses would be provided by local farmers.
"Will the American fare-collecting machine automatically eject a passenger who tries to sit tight when his three-pennyworth has expired?"
--0— That in Britain the honest arc still not without honour.
Of the recent theft from Wembley of a 2-ton compressor.
That it was obviously a portable one.
That fortunately there is no suspension of the Comets of road transport.
That it isn't only bus companies who get small value for their money these times.
That flexible-disc grinders can cut some metals far more rapidly than can the usual saws.
That Black Black and Decker are asking operators whether these are wasting their liquid assets.
That those magnums of champagne owned by road hauliers should be most carefully stored.
That Sir Alexander Maxwell expects 850,000 tourists this year and that they will spend £130m.