One Hears
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That the highway to unemployment could be paved with uneconomic wages.
. That the list of entrants for the Geneva Show in March next year will be closed on October 15.
That the Show authorities there are anticipating a record entry.
A warning to wives that aromatics in petrol do not make it into a toilet perfume for bath or handkerchief.
That the collecting of police and other road signs, and roadmen's red lamps, as "souvenirs " has been severely discouraged by a Metropolitan magistrate.
From a reader. "Now that automation has been sent by Providence (U.S.A.) to replace manufacture, how soon, having regard to our mounting inflature, before manumation supersedes Autofacture? " Of worries concerning over-tyring v. over-tiring tyres.
•That a wasp in the cab is almost as bad as a bee
in the bonnet.
The query: "Were those eight tons of beef on a lorry stolen by enthusiastic vegetarians?" _ That someone has to pay the piper when spendthrifts call the tune but penny wise is still as foolish as of old.
From a driver, held up by a wobbly learner glued to the crown, that there are none so deaf as those who cannot steer.
That it is natural for Russia to pay attention to the heating of passenger vehicles and many feel that British designers might give more thought to perfecting systems for our local buses.