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That all men like tailored seat covers.
That no government should make any one form of transport either a white-headed boy or a scapegoat.
Of someone talking' oWcrash loads" and "crush helmets "—from both of which may we be preserved.
That those who resent the idea of double Christmas fare on the buses would doubtless welcome it on the festive board.
Of someone asking how the lowering of roads for the passage of high vehicles under law bridges could be contrived without upsetting drains and mains of all sorts.
Of progress with metal-coated windscreens which can be warmed electrically—but so far only for aircraft.
A claim that the small number of specialist manufacturers in this country have done more than those of any other in evolving satisfactory cleansing vehicles.
That with completely automatic control of a battery of machine tools, the " instructions " to these for the production of a quite complicated part may be reduced to a recording on a tape.
That this would greatly facilitate the supply of otherwise obsolete spare parts, because the appropriate tapes could be stored and used as required.
"Swirl-creating head?" How reasonable!
Of George Mitchell's glee club carolling to the Treasury.
That they were making a silver collection of tax rebates.
That Japan has a flourishing home industry in oil-engined vehicles.
That 15 per cent. on wages would raise the price of iron castings by £2 per ton.
That the threatened railway strike brought coaching concerns a great amount of business.