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That a bus may have eight wheels, but not eight 'feet.
" Wider, never wider, shall their bounds be set seems to be the M.O.W.T. song.
That if we are to grow more food we must have more road transport.
Of a reader saying that we may call being bounced off one's seat " high periodicity," but he calls it " damned uncomfortable."
That the price of butyl (synthetic rubber) has been reduced from 2s. Id. to Is. 3id. per pound for contracts placed after June 21. That to travel comfortably is to feel better when one arrives.
Re Morse that neither operators nor maker need have any.
That there will soon be a drive for markets and a market for drives.
That even the most thoughtless cyclist is now bound by law to reflect.
That our articles on " smalls" have caught the eyes of some of our fair readers.
That motor-vehicle users alone bore one-eleventh of the total pre-war expenditure by the State.
That those who voted for nationalization were giving our industry and themselves a stab in the back.
That over 300,000 Specialloid pistons have been fitted to the engines of Crusader and Centaur Tanks.
From Viscount Davidson, president of the Bristol Engineering Industries Association, that factories are as important as houses.
That the " jobs " as well as the workers and their families must be accommodated.
Someone suggesting that only the very trustful would risk infection by using radio headphones in public-service vehicles.
That in France several concerns are making a feature of hiring out battery-electric vehicles rather than selling them.
That one such undertaking in the Lyons area has a fleet of over 400 electrics ranging from 1-ton to 6-tons capacity and spread over 14 depots.