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That whilst independence may be wonderful, interdependence often has its value.
• That the American national "truck driver of the year," Mr. Reuben C. Thomas, has a record of 600,000 accidentfree miles.
That he hauls peanuts and peanut butter, and is based on Alabama. _ That C.A.V. now have over 100,000 distributor fuel pumps in service, and teething troubles have been largely eliminated, Of those who say that Labour's re-nationalization programme might best be described as " Plan for Retrogress."
That those manufacturers who wish to bed-in plants in the Canadian market should pay close attention to the advice of Sir William Rootes.
That Bantam Hauls Mobile Research Clinic" might have appeared to the uninitiated as a variation of Terry Scott's famous "cockand bull story."
From Zenith Carburetters the interesting calculation that a gallon of petrol must be divided amongst over 250,000 firing strokes of a normal petrol engine.
Of a suggestion that any law against the transport of abnormal indivisible loads might, unless most carefully prepared, debar exceptionally fat people from travelling by public transport. That it is difficult to do today's job with yesterday's tool and remain in business tomorrow.
That one point about modern wide roads is that more vehicles can collide simultaneously.
That the production of rayon from bamboo is claimed as a possibility by an Indian Government scientist.
That a double-deck bus engine idling at about 350 r.p.m. consumes fuel at the rate of approximately 0.2 gal. per hour.
That the Kharkov tractor plant has commenced the mass production of the first Soviet tractor with an air-cooled oil engine.
That in these times of rapid progress, the "Bright. Young Things (whether human or mechanical) of yesterday are the' " period pieces" of tomorrow.