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Hears
That it is good year for better tyres.
That it is better to get cracking than get creaking.
That the F.B.I. is aiming a BIF at foreign competition.
That stainless steel becomes harder if filed too rapidly That most files blunt quickly on this material; and that an American concern has developed an improved type with special teeth.
Of an experiment with a controlled-burning coal mine in Alabama.
The query: Will this reduce the number of coal black mammies?
That unless you send that scrap iron and steel to the merchants Britain will not achieve the 1948 target of 14,000,000 tons of steel.
That Manchester has a Midland battery-electric eight-seater taxi plying for hire, and that a second is being equipped with a suitable body.
That to persuade foreign stevedores to keep export packing cases right side up, they are being stencilled with a symbol representing a champagne glass. That oil films are good, but not all films are. That a Fram up is much safer than a frame-up.
That some tyres are short, but the latest Dunlop& do " short " That many old I.A.E. members are still using the defunct initials.
That a scheme of petrol rationing has been adopted in Sweden.
Of someone saying he is more worried about • vehicles' waits and detentions than their weights and dimensions.
That the total savings on petrol from October Ito January 31 are estimated at 250,000 tons, representing £2,750,000 or about 11,000,000 dollars.
That only a proportion of this is due to the withdrawal of the basic ration.
The query: Has this been worth all the dislocation, waste of time and general inconvenience?
That for the American Crosley car engine, the cylinder block comprises four alloy-steel tubes and deep-drawn steel stampings, of Which there are over 120, brazed together in a special machine