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Group 80 of British Road Services is engaged is the delivery of Prestcold refrigerators. Fourteen Morris-Commercial 5-ton oil-engined tractors and 18 Carrimore semi-trailers are used for this work.
By the use of Anthony tailboard loaders, the heavier refrigerators, some of which weigh up to 18 cwt., can easily be handled by the driver and mate. During unloading, refrigerators are placed on the tailboard, which is lowered on to a small bogie carried as part of the vehicle's equipment. The refrigerators may then be wheeled away on a hand trolley, and covered corrugated sheets are laid if it has to be wheeled over carpeting.
Normal sided semi-trailers and box semi-trailers are loaded at the Pressed Steel company's Cowley factory, and as soon as one vehicle returns with an empty trailer, a loaded unit is ready for attachment. Crews of the vehicles are trained for this particular work and exclusively engaged on it.
During busy periods, about 70 loads leave the factory every week. Each vehicle covers a weekly average of 700 miles. In addition to home deliveries, export orders entail a number of trips to the docks.
CHECKING TOOL ANGLES
APRECISION instrument by means of which cutting-tool angles can be checked, has recently been marketed by W. H. Marley and Co., Ltd., 105, High Road, London, N.11.
Known as the Marie° tool protractor, it will show instantly the side rake. back rake and clearance angles on a turning tool, or it can be used to determine any angle relative to a given reference plane.
It sells for £6 5s., complete with a table giving suggested tool angles for machining all types of metal, using either high-speed steel or carbide-tipped tools.
RUBBER ELECTRICAL FITTINGS
Rif OULDED rubber plugs and sockets alf or electrical installations have an important advantage in that they are unbreakable. Such types of fitting are being produced by W. W. Haffenden, Ltd., Richborough Rubber Works. Sandwich, Kent, under the trade name, Duraplug.
The Duraplug socket is of the type in which the metal parts are well sunk into the rubber, making it possible to use them as floating connectors. A 15-amp. plug costs 2s. 6d., and a socket 3s. 6d.
MORE PAY FOR CO-OP. MEN?
TRANSPORT workers in the Col. operative retail trade will benefit under proposals for increased wages. Adult transport and milk workers in London will receive another 4s. a week. In the provinces, milk roundsmen and drivers of vehicles of under 2-ton payload capacity will gain 5s. 6d. a week and other adult males, Gs.