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Of oversize tyres to beat overseas tyrants.
That LonclOn's 20,000 lifts average 200 trips a day and consume 200,000 units of electricity.
That much fuel would be saved if their " upward " use was limited to nothing under the third floor.
Of a Michelin question to commercial motor owners and drivers; "Are you tyre watching?"
That war work has given a new meaning 'to the phrase "a woman at the bottom of it all."
That in many a branch of it there is also a woman at the top of it all 0 That petrol and paraffin are not the only sources of power used for operating farming machinery.
That, according to one authority, over 200,000 electric motors are in use on farms in this country and that the number may go beyond the million mark in the future.
Of an.old " Commercial Motor " idea being revived in Eire—that of converting railway tracks into main roads. 0 That Tilling-Stevens has little to do with agricultural processes, but ploughs a lot of fresh ground in the transport field. That Britons all swear by the R.A.F., but Germans swear at it.
Nevertheless, that they find themselves unable to dam when our airmen blast.
Of generals who could, to their advantage, study Crossley Motors' "Lessons in Battlecraft."
That most of about 1,000 fires which occur daily in British war factories are caused by carelessness.
That U.S.A. experimental growth of Russian dandelion produced rubber at the rate of 50 'lb. per acre.
From "Soviet War News " : More filth brings more bugs; increasing misery means more police and bureaucracy." 0 Also: "Nazi officials are the only ' Herrenvolk '."
Of a mere male saying that the M.O.W.T. film dealing with female labour will give a totally false impression through being "silent."
Of somebody who thought the needle-bearing track links of the " Famo " were like the scythe-bearing chariot wheels used by peoples equally ruthless and primitive-minded.. 0 That Canadian and other overseas troops over here seem to spend a lot of their time ringing our belles.
That, in consequence, a bevy of brides will figure largely in our post-war exports.
That the overseas training scheme may help the imports to balance up.