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Of a possible tightening-up of fleet-user terms.
Of screwdrivers with neori-lamp indicators which identify " live " wires.
That something of this kind might prove useful in selecting the industry's representatives.
Of discussions as to the space-saving possibilities of horizontal engines for commercial vehicles.
That many works and stores are likely to build more satisfactory loading platforms and thus save much lifting to vehicle-floor height.
That, despite the astounding weight -.f to the contrary, there are still fools who arltul. that small economies are not worth while.
Of activity on the part of the Society of Secretaries of engineering and other learned societiesto increase its membeiship from hundreds to thousands.
That the Pesco Hydrolene hydraulic clutch actuator, applied to a typical American bus, eliminated 42 working parts, 19 lubricationpoints and reduced the approximate cost by 60 per cent. Of much American two-stroke-oiler propaganch.
That double-deck buses are now running over the Menai suspension bridge.
" Shut that door'--and thus sz•ve heai which requires the consumpton of fuel
Of someone asking ii. this journal feels " fortified ' by the congratulations it has received.
That the quotation, "The roads of the present lic deep in the past," still applies to many of them.
That the Rootes Group will "stick to its last" and in post-war days make motor vehicles in preference to aircraft.
That the American motor industry produced civet a million dollars' worth of armaments per hour during 1944.
That the total value was 9,320,000,000 dollars, of which motor vehicles and parts accounted for 2,500,000,000 and Tanks 1,050,000,000, the remainder covering aircraft and their parts.
That a design should not be so simple as to appear primitive. • That any design perfectly suited to its purpose has an ipso facto beauty.
That pomposity as a substitute for dignity does not deceive the perspicacious.
That high-octane fuel may be too expensive to justify its use in lorry engines.
That steel ploughs for uprooting land mines are on some American Tanks.