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Of further petrol-electric developments.
!That only here and' there are the critics of coal-gas g-a,.3 bags.
Of some specially cute things in ,chassis knocked down for packing purposes.
That all sorts of home-grown timber are now being: used for British coachwork.
Of some tractor ploughing in Suffolk under Government. control that has cost per acre.
. That Britain's great aircraft programme 'brings with it correspondingly extensive motor transport requirements. .
That Mr.-Edge's policy of encouraging private enterprise in the importation of approved tractors should be continued.
• — That the •new Director of the Agricultural
Machinery Department should be thinking-about fuel , for the spring ploughing. .
• Of fine work in breaking up new land in. Ireland— not done by Government, but by natural individual effort merely assisted by Government.
Requests for information as to what the Food Production Department has done with its agricultural Machines and tractors.
Of a desire to know what each tractor has done ; how many days it has been in the possession of the F.P.D. ; how many acres it has ploughed ; what has been the cost per acre Of numerous Tommies as Munitions inspectors nowadays.
That a firm fixed tractor policy is required for at least a year.
That a good many soldiers in civilian service may yet be wanted in the Army.
That the Mechanical Cultivation Division hasbeen clubbed the Soil Tickling Brigade.
That the pen remains mighty and the tongue sharp the while the sivord itself is discarded.'
That there till be as much. demand for paiat as there will be for white-Wash after the war.
That an ,extra "unknown" seems to be addecr weekly to the problem of conducting any transport business.
General agreement on the value of private, enterprise-and individual initiative -(two characterktics of this nation) as means for getting things done.
That the chain makers of the Black Country are busy turning out huge quantities of non-skid chains for use on the rear tyres at the Front during the corning winter.
That wooden blocks for road surface repairs are scarce, and that the suggestion has-been received to turn them upside-down and lay them on a deeper concrete bed.