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That overtaking may be overstepping.
That big loads demand big roads and these must A be denied them.
That "near enough" is a bad slogan for workers, >th unskilled and skilled.
That those who employ it would be horrified it were applied to the filling of their pay packets.
From a report in an Indian journal that a certain hide had tyres reconditioned by the Tyresoles ocess and lubricated by Shell.
• —0 That the latter treatment of any tyres is not to be commended! Of somebody talking about " the low-brow bus."
That modern transport has seriously affected the small market town as a social and commercial centre.
That country dwellers now find it as easy to travel 10 or 20 miles to the county town as to go five miles to the former market town.
That Brisbane is to retain its trams for 25 . years and present bus services will be converted to trolleybuses where conditions are suitable.
That the Ferodo gold trophy for motor racing may make some people wonder what could be done in the way of trophies for the commercial side of road transport_ If Australia can reduce the price of petrol, why can't Britain?" • That the ticking of timing clocks in the cabs of some drivers keeps them awake at night. , That "refuse skeps " have nothing to do with the discouragement of sceptics—they are dustbins!
That, judging by Scottish coach-tour figures, there has arisen a generation that knows not Sir Walter.
That even the " dailies " are beginning to realize that industry's life blood must flow along good arterial roads.