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That light metals will carry weight in post-war design.
That in rarefied air aeroplane fuel "boils,' the bubbles starving the carburetters.
That this effect is overcome in American aircraft by a small booster pump in the base of each lank, which "whirls out" the bubbles as they form.
Of someone asking as to when H.M. Stationery Office will issue a• book on the war work of our Merchant " Land " Fleets. That unit-replacement schemes will grow apace.
That the lower weight .of narrow piston rings reduces inertia loads on the lands and wear of the grooves.
Of an. electrical expert's opinion that a perfect fog-penetrating lamp would appear to be something beyond the reach of man.
That a Waukesha petrol engine of 225 b.h.p. has been adapted by the maker to use butane fuel and now develops over 300 b.h.p.
That the American scout car embodies 28 Timken taper-roller bearings, whilst -breakiown salvage vehicles often have 52 or more.
Of broken kerbs and gate posts because some Service drivers cannot be bothered to wait for a good opening to tarn their vehicles.
That A Canadian rural school was loaded on to a lorry and removed to a new site before the principal was officially notified of the change.
Of much special road improvement work carried out in Hampshire in preparation for D-Day and the heavy road traffic the Normandy invasion involved.
That Canada has charged E.P.T. on the insurance payment resulting from the loss by fire of a number of old vehicles which had been written off in the operator's books. _0_ That representatives of the Governments of the U.K„ U.S.A., and Netherlands, forming an informal rubber study group, met in Washington in the week which started on January 22..
—0 From an "S.A.E. Journal" : If a tenth the atten tion was give to opening minds for reception as is given to opening them for sending, the–volume of knowledge exchanged in the world would be multiplied enormously.