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That Patricia Roc prefers her buses on watei , Of a solid tyre with a soft centre for industrial trucks.
Of self-vulcanizing patches carrying their own heating fuel.
That fast chargers for batteries are making great progress in the States.
That plain lard oil is an excellent lubricant for pressing-in cylinder liners.
That Britons—through the medium of their tyres and springs—are becoming desperately roadconscious That double-shifting is speeding tractor shipping.
That America is building more lorries in the lighter classes Of heat-conducting glass to prevent windscreen frosting.
That modern farmers seem more optimistic than their forefathers.
That then optimism is probably due to the mechanization of farming.
Of few cases of people alighting from Mr. Odelrs buses while in motion.
That those mentally twisted unfortunates, the seat slashers, are active again.
Road approval for Major Eastwood's Saturday morning visits to railway stations.
That in 1947 Britain spent some £1,000 million in
• borrowed dollars and gold reserves That E.R P. may provide £400 million annually, but Britain must cover £600 minion.
That the Institute of Metals' meeting at Cambridge will commence with a church service and a sermon by the vice-chancellor of the university.
That he might well refer to certain metals such as uranium !
That man's "allotted span" is supposed to be 70 years, and if present shortages persist, well have to reckon it the same for our vehicles.
That the American Goodrich Co. has opened a large laboratory to study the application of atomic energy to natural and synthetic rubber, chemicals and plastics.
That a new American Acme-Morrison machint stitches materials such as aluminium, leather and copper; textiles to aluminium, or aluminium, plywood and brass—using clinched staples.