NEWS IN BRIEF

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13770, 13 October 1942, Page 3

NEWS IN BRIEF

Pedals in U.S. —United States bicycle manufacturers are to be allocated metal supplies sufficient to make more than three-quarters of a million bicycles during 1942, but manufacturers consider that, with the restriction of motoring, they could sell four million. Swell Idea. —An American inventor has demonstrated a quick way of making a concrete garage. He inflates a balloon of suitable size and shape, spreads concrete on its exterior, and then deflates and removes the balloon when the concrete has set! Result: a swell garage. Poised Patriotism.—A New Jersey (U.S.A.) engineer who is patriotically determined to save rubber rides to work on a one-wheeled cycle. Paris Air Raids. —Motorists in Paris ' (those few left) have been warned that when an air-raid warning sounds they must immediately draw into the kerb and stop, and that if they fail to comply their vehicles are liable to be confiscated. No One Came Forward.—After a fatal accident at Chelmsford, England, a police car, equipped with loudspeaker, toured the town broadcasting an appeal for witnesses. Although there were scores of people about at the time of the accident, not one witness came forward.