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The rallying cry, " Up, hauliers! and out 'em! "
That if we, in the words of one haulier, "give 'em the push, we can give Britain a good haul "—in fact, the best haul of all.
That Yugoslavia is building •a motor road for speeds up to 93 mph.
That rubber-asphalt road" surfacjng is being tried out in the U.S.A., Canada and Malaya.
Of marked differences between Reds and Midland Reds and travellers and fellow travellers.
That prosperity seems to be one of the few things the Government isn't able to nationalize.
That cats and dogs seem to have assimilated the Highway Code far better than many a human being.
That there are now many satisfied operators of Austin hire cars and taxis in the provinces as well as in the capital.
That Denmark is the next country to consider this make of vehicle for metropolitan taxi work.
That a Leeds manufacturer of motor fittings and trimmings has sent an ex-W.D. vehicle, equipped as a mobile shop, on a sales tour of New Zealand. That Rome's seven hills are as nothing to London's peaks.
That road transport has been impeded for years by a thick, icy political fog.
That there are hopes of this clearing soon.
That over 40,000 miles of our roads-22 per cent. of the total—have a speed limit of 30 m.p.h.
That Americans spend practically as much on local, state and federal government as they do on food.
That the Albion concern believes in batch production of particular models rather than making the " breeds " simultaneously.
That this system enables stocks to be built up for subsequent batches, whilst the concentration makes for more meticulous workmanship and inspection.
That U.S.A. steel production for 1949 was some 77,500,000 tons, whilst the motor industry produced one vehicle per second per working day.
That, resulting from a courtesy campaign in Sweden, a Stockholm conductor advertised his apology to passengers to whom he might have been rude.