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That vested interests make others " shirty."
That the sheltered life" is an expression that has lost its pre-war significance.
That 'the American Goodyear battery has plates insulated with "felted " fibreglass.
• Of increased supplies of glycerine for anti-freeze mixtures during the coining winter.
That the State may not be commercially minded, but it often seems comically_rninded.
From Sir Miles Thomas that it takes two years to "tool up "for a new design of motor lorry.
That a R.E.M.E. workshop of Southern Command has converted two motor caravans into mobile chapels for the Normandy Front.
That Birmingham has approved a scheme for an nner ring road and may spend about £15,000,000 on icquiring the land required.
That during the local "Salute the Soldier" Week, Tilling-Stevens, Ltd., and Vulcan Motors, Ltd., more than dbubled their 25,000 target.
Of a new welding technique for rebuilding worn parts—an auxiliary cast-iron or high-carbon steel rod is used with an arc-welding electrode. That Germany specializes in the flying bomb and lying bombast.
That when there is work available the local authorities might give lorry owners the "tip."
That America believes post-war motor vehicles will be 25-40 per cent, above the pre-war cost.
A suggestion that 'travellers on austerity-type buses should arm themselves with their own seat cushions.
That " It seems a bit hard! "as a fair comment on the proposal.
That, with so many mechanically minded men released from the 'Forces, breakdowns after the war should be few and far between.
That, nevertheless, only optimists expect entirely smooth running of things in general.
Of so many cases of producer-gas poisoning in ' Sweden that a special clinic to deal with poisoned people has been set up in a Stockholm hospital.
That the milk-collection schemes now in operation in this country are saving a weekly total of 433,000 motor-haulage miles and 90„000 gallons of petrol.
That on the retail milk side the pooling is resulting in the saving of 879,000 haulage miles and 39,000 gallons of fuel per week.
That the new spirit needed by road tra.nsport is more than an alternative fuel.
That one ordnance depot in America overhauls 70,000 motor vehicles annually.
That turnings are being briquetted at fusing heat to give 80 per cent. solid metal.
That an adaptation of a hypodermic syringe is used to meter oil into tiny ball bearings.