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""Why wood for bodies?"
" What about aluminium wheels?"
"Why cast-iron cylinder heads? "
Of stunts in the world of altiminium.
Of production in gas production.
Of gear tooth form investigation.
Of Wells closing down—not oil wells.
Of semi-Diesel engine developments in France.
That the engine-tipped trailer has come to stay.
That van advertising is very underdone an yet.
That aluminium brake shoes save unsprung weight.
That three-point suspension is overdue in some quarters.
That it is time that the ratio of net to gross load should be increased.
That the heat we buy in the form of petrol costs too much to waste it as we are doing now.
That the time has arrived when hand and featbrake operation is getting out of date.
That, if the touring car people are going in for hydraulic operation, the heavy vehicle designers must not be left behind.
Of the steamer on its mettle, and that it has suffered in the past from too much—metal.
That, moreover, there-are some striking developments in petrol engine design well on the way.
That, as a rumour, this is something of a hardy Annual, but that, in this instance, there is some foundation for it.
That the fuel of the future is still uncertain. What will it be, alcohol, benzole, petrol, crude oil, anthracite—or just coke?
That to regard an engine, with the low thermal efficiency of the ordinary type of petrol motor, as the last word, would be absurd. "Why horse milk floats?"
Of a highly-disguised Guy.
Of an extra ax(l)e to grind.
Of the revival of Mason's spirits.
That it may be multi-wheel or woe.
That it is a bit of a frost when the cylinders crack.
"Hard lines" from the cut tyre.
That it is not fashionable nowadays to be "in the cart."
From a crank inventor : "Why not hold all the wheels off the ground?"
From certain users that the solid tyre is not a patch on the inner tube.
That the • State Express publicity vehicle attracting enormous attention.
That even the casters call it a " blinkin' marvel."
Strong comments on the sale of war booty in the shape of German lorries.
And that. there is always the thought that booty may be only skin deep.
That there has already been a strong Smell of gunpowder about the Road-Rails Guy, with Promises of more to come.
That Wolverhampton stared harder and longer at that particular Guy, than at any since Mr. Fawkes's meteoric flash across the historical firmament.
That the "spread-over" of the bus workers' hours in London will be farther reaching in its benefits than is imagined, even by many who have studied the scheme.