One Hears
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Someone saying: "Where else would you expect to find an Australian engine but down under?"
That with postage and telephone charges soaring many a haulier's assessment of his overheads may go head-over-heels.
That some 680 miles of motor roads were built in Kazakhstan (U.S.S.R.) last year, and the volume of traffic trebled as compared with that in 1953.
From Mr. G. S. Sutcliffe, managing director, Ferodo Ltd., an optimistic report on his month's visit to the U.S.A., where he hopes for a dollar market in replacement brake and clutch facings—and stair treads.
That, according to him, whilst competition there is increasingly severe, the prospects for British exporters are good if they adopt methods appropriate to the U.S. market, which is what Ferodo intend to do
That there is no value so difficult to assess nowadays as that of the word "cheap."
Questions as to whether the Australian road-toll proceeds will go the way of the British " Road " Fund.
That in any case it seems likely, that the cost of collecting the toll will make heavy inroads on the revenue derived from it.
That British vehicle designers and manufacturers must be able to offer competitive facilities and prices lest customer countries became " self-supporting " or purchase elsewhere.
That it seems to the man who works with his hands, that no matter how hard he stokes the fires of industry, more and more escapes along the various national flues, and up the national funnel.
That hell-for-leather on many roads really means hell for rubber.
That if the Jam process does all that is claimed for it it's "a honey"!
That the Stork (Dennis variety) will be bringing the children again in London.
That they will come in larger quantities than quads.