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Old Car Picture of the Week…The Water Break

From the U.S. National Archives: Old Cars Serve as Water-Break on Navajo Reservation

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Anti-quake rails to curb derailment

2 centimeters higher than the track rails. They are being installed alongside each rail and will prevent train cars from rocking in a quake and the wheels from lifting up and derailing. Work began this month. By March 2013, JR Tokai expects to have

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Toyota, Japan Inc. need strategic gear change

crisis, many governments are trying to foster next-generation industries; in particular, those that are green such as electric cars. On the other hand, with the collapse of the Big Three in the United States, consumers now have a more advantageous

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Police campaign targets car break-ins

Mackay police say they are aiming to reduce the number of thefts from unlocked cars by 100 per cent over the next three months. Sergeant Nigel Dalton says in the past six months an average of one car a day has been broken into, with

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Residents want parking cameras

district, are hoping their building management company will install surveillance cameras after a spate of incidents in which cars have been damaged when left overnight. Some said concerns about a loss of privacy are eclipsed by the need to protect their

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New rule to put more disabled people in driver’s seat

Organizations for disabled people and driving schools in Beijing have begun to refit cars as people with some disabilities will be able to learn to drive and obtain driver’s licenses beginning in April. The Ministry of Public Security in December issued

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Cash-for-clunkers call

Russia launched Monday a cash-for-clunkers program running through November 1, encouraging drivers to trade in old cars for new ones in order to prop up a domestic market badly hit by the global economic crisis

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A classic cull or a clean-up act?

The Duchess would be abandoned to the jaws of a crusher for any scrappage scheme, but what classic cars are being lost, writes KILIAN DOYLE ?Here?s an idea,? a grinning friend said to me recently. ?Why don?t you scrap your old Beemer? You could get

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Average cars becoming ever more complex

have ?over engineered? the design? While I?m loathe to criticise the level of engineering that goes into modern cars ? as the vast majority of it contributes to efficiency and safer cars ? it?s clearly a problem that is only going to grow as electric

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