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Of more and more " get-together " being needed.
That many traders will probably "renounce the devil and all his works" and return to road transport as soon as possible,
A gruesome query: "Are they making plastics coffins yet?"
That the answer might be: "Don't know, but they are making plastics bodies."
That so much is now effected by road transport that few can say they are not affected by it.
That, judging by the number of" Charley's Aunts" on the roads, there should be no shortage of veteran and vintage lorries for Lord Montagu's rally.
That some might need the equivalent of a face-lift to be eligible for a concours d'elegance.
That several lorry drivers recently fined for exceeding the speed limit pleaded ignorance of the fact that it now applies to vehicles running unladen.
That the Communist desire to subjugate the workers, mind, body and soul, should be entirely foreign to the independent spirit of the average Briton.
That hauliers can now say "Told you So!" to the cockahoop railways, Who were sure their temporary goods traffic increase (due to the fuel trouble) would be a permanent gain.
That if British workers are so concerned with "standing on the order of their going" they must expect to see their orders going to foreign concerns of lesser standing.
That some of those ". Wise old owl " posters, issued as a warning to soldiers in the 1914-18 War, might, with advantage, be exhibited in drivers' canteens to warn against inadvertently helping transport thieves.